Why ‘contact balance’ could be crucial to understanding the Giants’ Saquon Barkley-Devin Singletary switch

No one ever said Devin Singletary is a better or more accomplished running back than Saquon Barkley. NFL front office executives and scouts did not say it with their evaluations of these players when they came out of college. Barkley was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. A year later, Singletary went in the third round at No. 74 overall, a spot far more in keeping with how the league values the position. And no one said it while Barkley was taking the ball for the...