Why Eagles RB Saquon Barkley’s return to face Giants in ‘hated rivalry’ is so unfamiliar

Before Saquon Barkley can play his former team in the stadium he called home for six seasons, he must figure out where to go. It occurred to Barkley when asked on Thursday that he doesn’t know the location of the visitor’s locker room for Sunday's Eagles-Giants game. For 38 games at MetLife Stadium, he took the same path down the same corridor to the same locker room. It becomes muscle memory. As much as playing in MetLife Stadium might be familiar to Barkley, it will seem unfamiliar when he’s navigating different directions to a different dressing area.
There’s much Barkley is navigating this week for an emotionally charged game against a franchise where he hoped to play his entire career —...