The New York Giants have had some incredible playmakers in the team’s history.

When it comes to running backs, the Giants have been fortunate to have some of the NFL’s top ball carriers over the last few decades.

The Giants selected UVA running back Tiki Barber in the second round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and the shifty ball-carrier spent his entire 10-year NFL career in the Big Apple, setting plenty of records along the way.

Barber retired from the NFL at the end of the 2006 NFL postseason as the New York Giants‘ all-time rushing and reception leader. He is one of only four players with 5,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards. He finished his pro career with 10,449 rushing yards and 55 rushing touchdowns, while adding another 5,183 yards as a receiver and 12 touchdowns as a pass-catcher.

He earned All-Pro honors in 2005 and made it to the Pro Bowl in three straight seasons from 2004-2006. Barber was selected to the Giants Ring of Honor so his legacy in New York will never be forgotten.

More recently, the New York Giants have had one of the top running backs in the modern day NFL in their backfield with Saquon Barkley.

The G-Men selected Barkely with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft out of Penn State and he thrived immediately as a rookie. Barkley started all 16 games in 2018 and finished the year with 1,307 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns on the ground, while adding another 721 receiving yards and four touchdowns as a receiver.

Barkley received numerous awards during and after his rookie season, including Pepsi Rookie of the Year,^[FedEx Ground NFL Player of the Year, AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and was named to the PFWA All-Rookie Team and AP All-Rookie teams. He followed up with another strong performance in 2019 and headed into 2020 ranked as the No. 31 player in the top 100 players in the NFL. 

Injuries hindered Barkley in 2020 and 2021 and there began to be murmurs about his future with the New York Giants. He silenced the critics in 2022 with his best professional season, finishing the year with 1,312 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns. His efforts helped the Giants reach the playoffs and he had 109 total scrimmage yards and two touchdowns in the win over the Vikings in the Wildcard Round.

Like most of the Giants team in 2023, Barkley took a step back in production behind one of the worst offensive lines in the NFL. He was playing on the franchise tag — and instead of giving him a new contract for 2024 — the organization let him test the waters and he inked a new deal with the rival Philadelphia Eagles this offseason.

Before Barkley and after Barber was Brandon Jacobs, one of the most memorable running backs in team history due to his incredible size and bruising ruining style.

Jacobs was much taller than the average NFL RB at (6’4) and weighed a whopping 264 pounds. He was the Giants’ go-to running back during a run that included two Super Bowl wins from 2005-2011 and holds the franchise record for the most career rushing touchdowns with 60.

Former New York Giants RB Brandon Jacobs Reveals He Did Cocaine Before Monster Game In High School

Jacobs recently joined the Raw Room podcast and casually dropped details about how the only time he ever did cocaine, he proceeded to rush for 338 yards and four TDs in a high school game. I

“It was one of my homeboys. He had graduated the year before me. I was walking into the weight room, and he’s like ‘Hey guess what I got? […] I got that white girl.’

I’m like, oh for real?’You wanna try it?’ I’m like yeah, lemme try it…338 [yards], four touchdowns. Killed it. I destroyed it. […] It was easy — I felt like I was the only one out there! I ain’t never did it again. I shoulda did it again.”

The podcast hosts reacted like almost anyone would when it comes to hearing about the huge, bruising former New York Giants RB playing on cocaine.

Is there any high school running back you’d less rather tackle than a late-teen, coked-up Brandon Jacobs? If he was really big by NFL standards, think about what the average high schooler looked like going up against him. Would’ve been bad enough for an average game, but with the extra super powers that come from doing Cocaine, the job would be seemingly impossible.

This was quite the revelation from the former Giants’ star. It’s probably good for everyone that was the only time he tried the drug.