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than they did last year and one of the pieces they added to do that was center Garrett Bradbury.They selected Bradbury in the first round of the draft and he’s on track for a starting job this fall after moving right into the first team. On Tuesday Paul Krause Jersey , head coach Mike Zimmer said that the 18th overall has handled the transition to the NFL well in his first offseason.“He’s a very athletic guy that [can] really bend. He’s got good power, he’s very competitive,” Zimmer said, via the team’s website. “He’s done a good job. We’re giving him a lot of different looks defensively Fran Tarkenton Jersey , so I think that’s good for him. There’s times when we [confuse him a] little bit, but he’s very, very bright and doing a good job.”Training camp and the preseason should be even more telling about how well Bradbury handles things in the middle of the line. If those performances are as strong as Zimmer’s review, the team will be on the way to fixing a weak spot last season. Giants head coach Pat Shurmur has not closed the door on running back Saquon Barkley playing against the Vikings on Sunday and said that the back would do more on-field work Thursday as he continues to make his way back from an ankle injury.Barkley did do more work than the running he got in on Wednesday Brett Favre Jersey , but it wasn’t enough to list him as a participant in the team’s practice session. Barkley said after the session that he doesn’t feel he’d need to practice in order to play this weekend and did nothing to suggest he’s ruled himself out for a second straight game.“Just feels good to get out there with my teammates,” Barkley said, via Ralph Vacchiano of SNY. “I think we’ve been having a great week of practice. Just gotta keep getting better. One more day to attack it on the field to prepare ourselves the best for the Vikings.”Word at the time of Barkley’s injury was that he’d miss 4-8 weeks while recovering, but this week’s developments make it hard to believe that he’ll be out that long regardless of what happens on Sunday. Barkley credited his mental strength with speeding up the timeline because he would not “take a negative approach to” the recovery process.As of now Adam Thielen Jersey , that looks like as effective a remedy for ankle trouble as anything anyone else in the NFL has come up with so far.