Why don’t you compare his stats to zeke’s rookie year? How many records has zeke broken behind a top 5 or 10 O line? If Barkley had anywhere close to the blocking zeke has had he would have destroyed zekes numbers, the same could be said for other running backs as well.
To quote you, you said “No back shines without blocking.. that's simply a universal truth.“
To repeat myself, Barkley was running behind one of the worst O lines in the league and broke several records so please tell me how the records I posted, Giants or otherwise, aren’t “shining” especially when he beat your boy zeke in several statistical categories.
“I’ll wait”
Okay since you wanna play let's play..
Rookie season totals..
Zeke 322 carries.. Barkley 261 .. ADV Zeke 1-0
Zeke 1631 yards ( in 15 games) Barkley 1307 yards (in 16 games) ADV Zeke 2-0
Zeke 15 rushing TD Barkley 11 rushing TD ADV Zeke 3-0
Zeke 5.1 ypc Barkley 5.0 ypc ADV Zeke 4-0
Zeke 32 rec Barkley 91 rec ADV Barkley.. finally he wins one!! 4-1
Zeke 363 rec yards Barkley 721 rec yards.. ADV Barkley two!!! 4-2
Zeke 11.3 yards per catch Barkley 7.9 yards per catch.. ADV Zeke. oops.. 5-2
Zeke long run 60 Barkley long run 78 ADV Barkley 6-2
Zeke long rec 83 Barkley long rec 57 ADV Zeke.. 6-3
Zeke 95 first downs rushing Barkley 50 first downs rushing.. ADV Zeke 7-3
So of the 10 major categories pro-football-reference tracks, rookie Zeke was superior to rookie Barkley. But we should grade Barkley on a curve because his line was bad.. But if we say Zeke is not producing at the same rate he did as a rook now that his line is bad and we are trotting out hot garbage at QB. Yet no mention of Barkley's 1.8 ypc this year with Jones now as the full time starter. Or Barkley's 300 yard drop from season one to season two .. when coincidentally the Giants shifted from the veteran QB who at least commanded one eye from the defense to Jones whom defenses treated like he was... I dunno Andy Dalton?