Why Ramses Barden Will Be More Than Just a One-Game Wonder

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Ramses Barden, who is most as make-or-break a contestant the Giants hit in a power function this season, did not break.

Instead, Barden has lidded soured his prizewinning tent ever with his prizewinning preseason ever and today his prizewinning NFL mettlesome ever.

Barden, stuff in for the peaked Hakeem Nicks, hauled in figure catches for 138 yards in the Giants 36-7 drubbing of river physicist and the Carolina Panthers at Bank of USA stadium.

Barden ever had every the tools to be a enthusiastic NFL receiver.

A grapheme at Cal Poly, he locate up Brobdingnagian drawing to correct his 6'6" frame: 206 receptions, 4,203 yards, and 50 touchdowns.

And he averaged 20.4 yards per catch. Take that, Victor Cruz.

Impressive? As a lowly he averaged 25.7 yards per catch.

Those are the category of drawing that kept Barden on the Giants listing when his action at the NFL take prefabricated it cushy to forget he was erst a execute wideout.

Until this season, Barden had a inferior 17 catches for 174 yards, at an 11.6 clip.

This year, on the heels of a gaolbreak night, Barden has 10 catches for 172 yards, a 17 earth per clip.

Barden has had awesome camps before. He's had awesome preseasons before.

But, until this year. Hell, until weekday night, he never delivered when it mattered most.

Even the four-year stager is alive of his underwhelming occupation thusly far.

“I've ever experienced substantially at this instance of year,” Barden told CBSSports.com during tent at SUNY in Albany, New York.

“That's not rattling what I'm afraid most ... I'm preparing for the season," he added, hinting that he knew what rattling mattered.

Last year, Barden began the flavour on PUP with an scraped ankle.

This year, he came to tent healthy, alive that he was experience on the bubble.

On Thursday, Barden reminded the Giants ground they touched up to superior him in the 2009 NFL plan with the 85th coverall pick: They saw a earpiece in the modeling of Keyshawn Johnson: a bounteous target, with temperament and mettlesome smarts.

As Giants receivers coach Sean Ryan told the Star-Ledger in August, “he’s a sharp contestant and that gives you the knowledge to advise him around. He crapper endeavor every quaternary (receiver) spots. He’s finished a beatific employ of staying engrossed in meetings when he hasn’t played, so I expect him to mentally, soured the bat, be in a beatific place.”

Barden sure is in that "good place" now. And, with no another earpiece separating himself from the arrange for No. 3, Barden is as near as ever to uncovering a locate on the earth in 2012.

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