INDIANAPOLIS — The odds are against the New York Giants using the franchise tag on running back Saquon Barkley, but general manager Joe Schoen said the team still considers it a possibility.”I wouldn’t say the franchise tag is off the table, no,” Schoen said Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine.Using the franchise tag on Barkley for a second straight year would cost $12.1 million, a number Schoen noted is not much more — approximately $200,000 more — than if the team were to put the franchise tag on a running back for the first time.”The salary cap changes your philosophy on how you’re going to attack things. That’s not off the table,” Schoen said. “We don’t want to do it. In a perfect world, we don’t want to do that again.”It also likely would not sit well with Barkley, 27, who has made it clear for more than a year that he does not want to be tagged. After totaling a career-high 1,312 rushing yards in 16 games in 2022, he and the Giants couldn’t come to an agreement on a long-term deal and Barkley settled for an adjusted franchise tag in the offseason.At the end of the 2023 season, Barkley said he was “numb” to the possibility of being hit with the franchise tag for a second time and was skipping the Giants’ open-door policy exit interviews.”I went through the whole process last year. We talked more than enough last year, to be honest. I’m gonna let my agents handle that,” Barkley said in January.Schoen said Tuesday the team already has plans to meet with Barkley’s representatives this week.”The conversation, the plan all along, was to meet here in Indy and have those discussions about how we’re going to move forward with him,” Schoen said. “He’s a guy we’d like to have back. So, those conversations will take place this week, and we’ll see if we can get something done with him.”