Fed-up Saquon Barkley tells Giants to franchise tag him soon

Saquon Barkley is fed up with playing games.

He challenged the Giants on Monday to either franchise tag him a second straight year or “let me go” into free agency.

Just don’t make him wait.

“They did it last year, so I’m numb to it,” Barkley said at his locker about the tag. “I don’t have any feelings toward that at all. (But) if you’re gonna do it, just don’t wait until March 5. Just get it over with. If not, let me go. Simple.”

Barkley, 26, had promised last week that he would speak honestly with GM Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll at his exit meeting. But the Giants did not hold individual player exit meetings on Monday.

By Maggie Vanoni

STORRS — There was no official diagnosis yet, but the assumptions were already grim for UConn women’s basketball graduate student Aubrey Griffin’s left knee injury when she approached head coach Geno Auriemma with an important question this weekend.

“How much more eligibility to do I have?” she said.

Six days after suffering a knee injury last Wednesday in UConn’s game at Creighton, there remains no definitive word on Griffin’s status. Initial examination showed the knee was “very, very unstable.”

Auriemma said Tuesday afternoon that Griffin was undergoing additional testing and the team would know more later Tuesday or Wednesday morning. While Griffin is

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eligible for the WNBA Draft, the combo guard/ forward does have an additional year of collegiate eligibility remaining because of the pandemic.

“I don’t expect any good news,” Auriemma said

Tuesday of her injury status. “… I think everybody is kinda ready for the worst.”

The No. 13 Huskies will play their second game without their sixth player Wednesday night in their first home game of 2024, hosting Providence at 6:30 p.m. in Hartford. The game will be a welcome home celebration for former Husky and current Friars’ assistant coach Kaili McLaren.

UConn beat Georgetown by nearly 30 points in D.C. Sunday in its first game without Griffin as all nine available players saw the floor. But the biggest holes left by Griffin’s absence remain: rebounding and production off the bench.

Griffin (second on the team with 6.0 rebounds per game) was the only true experienced reserve.

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