For the first time in a long while, the New York Giants rushing offense is sitting at the top of the NFL, averaging 192.5 yards through four games, a vast improvement over the 99.3 yards it averaged in 2021.Much of that is thanks to running back Saquon Barkley, with 463 yards on 84 carries and who already has two 100-yard rushing performances to his name this season. “Were doing pretty good right now in the run game,” Barkley said Thursday. “Really good, to be completely honest. Not just myself, but as a whole.”The fifth-year Devin Harris Jersey running back said it’s been a collaborative effort between the offensive line’s run blocking, the play calls, the decisions by quarterback Daniel Jones and Barkley himself that has helped the run game carry the offense through the first four months of the season.”The o-line has been incredible. Every single one of those guys, just the way that theyre working all on the same page, thats the beauty of the o-line. It takes five guys to be on the same page for one play. If one of them is just a little bit off or especially me, if Im not reading it right or my steps arent right, the whole play can be me sed up,” Barkley said. “The o-linemen are doing a great job. I also want to give credit to the tight ends. Tyler Lydon Jersey The tight ends have been doing an amazing job. Theres one clip where they took the d-end and moved him five, 10 yards back, and you see them celebrating. As a back, that gets you excited. Also, the wide receivers too and DJ are making the right calls. Its been a collective thing.”In addition to his rushing yardage, Barkley has so far–the big-play run total exceeding his 2021 season total of nine and the mi sed tackles four shy of what he recorded last year.He’s also averaging a career-high 4.07 yards after contact, putting to rest any doubts about Jarred Vanderbilt Jersey whether he’s back from the ACL tear he suffered in 2020. And if anyone is worried about Barkly being overworked this early in the season, don’t be.Scroll to Continue”I mi sed so many games the last couple of years. Me complaining about touches or being worried about touches that would be just stupid of me, to be completely honest,” Barkley said.”Im just ble sed and happy I get to go out there and play the sport that I love. I keep saying it: I want to go out there and make plays and try to help my team win games. If that means 30 touches, then that means 30 touches. If that means only five touches, then its only five touches. Whatever I can do to put my team in a position to win games, Im going to do.” Despite all he’s accomplished so far this season, Barkley thinks there is still room for the rushing offense–including Alex English Jersey himself–to improve.”Its just early in the year,” he said. “Everyone is continually working on trying our best to get into midseason form. Weve just got to continue to find the plays that we know that work for us and then go out there and execute it. “Ive got to do a better job when the o-line gives me opportunities to make the defense pay.”This weekend the Giants will face a Packers run defense that not only doesn’t load the box up often, but when it has, teams have found succe s in the ground game, averaging 6.03 yards per carry against 8+ men in the box.If Barkley is excited about the prospect of not having to face a loaded box, he wasn’t letting on. “Its going to be a focal point for a lot of teams to try to stop us,” he said Gary Harris Jersey . “A lot of teams are going to do a lot new and different things, come up with creative ways. You cant look too deep into that; weve just got to focus on ourselves and adjust whenever they come out to try something.”