Saquon Barkley doesn’t begrudge unhappy football fans for booing their team. But heckling injured players crosses a line in his view. That’s what provoked the running back to shout back at a fan in Miami who was jeering Daniel Jones while the Giants quarterback was being checked for a neck injury Sunday.
Barkley explained his behavior to reporters Thursday in response to a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) of him yelling at a fan from the sideline. The person who posted the video wrote that Barkley, who’s currently sidelined by an ankle injury, was “beefing with fans on the sidelines,” a notion the six-year veteran disputed.
“You have a fan just ‘motherf---ing’ him. That just doesn’t sit well with me,” Barkley told reporters after practice, per the New York Post. "He’s helpless. He can’t do nothing.”
