The pressure is there. It is real. It is tangible. And it isn’t just because there is so much easily obtainable testimony about just how good Saquon Barkley is. Anyone with a laptop and an internet connection can see that.
Here’s one: Barkley takes a handoff from Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley, tip-toes slightly right, measuring the USC linemen in the 2017 Rose Bowl and … holy COW, he makes a diagonal cut that seems geometrically implausible, and physically impossible, and he dashes 79 yards to the end zone …
Here’s another: Barkley taking the ball from McSorley and not simply running through a gaggle of Pittsburgh Panthers, not merely running over them, but all but dismissing them, as if they were a collection of Pop Warner kids.