Ranking Each Team's First Pick: Saquon Barkley

Sorry there was no new ranking for two days. I had one more final and my dad was visiting for his 60th birthday.

Anyways, today is the revealing of the 5th best first draft pick for each team in this year's draft. So far we have seen three QBs and a defensive player. Now we see the first non-qb offensive player. It is running back Saquon Barkley.

Barkley is considered by many as the best player in the draft and people think he is a generational player. He has the talent, but his pick is only ranked in the 5th spot because the Giants should probably have picked up Sam Darnold after the Browns botched their pick on Baker Mayfield. The Giants need someone to take over Eli Manning's reign eventually and if Barkley doesn't help the Giants win a Superbowl before Manning retires, then this will be a much criticized pick. It's not the picking running backs so early is always bad (you can get an Ezekiel Elliot every so often. It's just that they usually turn out to be a Trent Richardson. The last time a running back was drafted number 2 overall was Reggie Bush and he had about two solid seasons (he was mostly a sideshow for teams like the Saints), and his career is considered "average" to "alright" at best.