New York Giants tight end Kyle Rudolph said he wants no reward for recovering Saquon Barkley’s fumble in overtime that kept their game-clinching drive alive in Sunday’s 27-21 win.

“If that ball bounced anywhere. . . let’s just say I owe Kyle Rudolph a dinner or something like that,” Barkley told reporters after the game

Barkley eventually punched in the winning score but three plays before that he fumbled the football on a first-and-ten on the Saints’ 34. The veteran Pro Bowler Rudolph adroitly fell on it to maintain possession. After the game, Barkley said he owed Rudolph dinner for saving the game.

“We’re not going to dinner, [the recovery is] my job,” Rudolph said in a Tuesday appearance on NFL Network. “When you have a guy like that that is as dynamic and explosive as he is, you know when he gets the ball in his hands, the first guy is not going to make the tackle. So you always run towards the ball just in case something like that happens. Sure enough, the ball came out and I was right over there and able to fall on it.

“Saquon’s job is to make people miss and make explosive plays like that and I’m just glad I was able to be right there and smother that football as quickly as I could so we could finish the drive and win the game in overtime.”

The Giants won their first game of the season after trailing by 11 points midway through the fourth quarter and came back to tie the game in regulation, sending it into overtime.