Saquon Barkley has lengthy been thought of to be brimming with expertise, however this season, he put all of it collectively and had a season for the ages.
He grew to become one in all a handful of NFL operating backs to ever eclipse 2,000 speeding yards in a single season with 2,005, and had he performed in Week 18, he might’ve damaged Eric Dickerson’s all-time document of two,105 speeding yards, which was set in 1984.
Although Barkley didn’t break Dickerson’s document, he can run by the Los Angeles Rams legend on one other historic record whereas dealing with his former workforce within the NFC divisional spherical.
“Saquon Barkley can cross Eric Dickerson this Sunday for whole speeding yards in a season (common [and] postseason). … He wants 89 to cross Dickerson and transfer into third,” Eliot Shorr-Parks of 94 WIP Sports activities Radio wrote on X.
Saquon Barkley can cross Eric Dickerson this Sunday for whole speeding yards in a season (common + postseason) (The extra vital stat)
He wants 89 to cross Dickerson and transfer into third:
Terrell Davis (1998): 2,476
Terrell Davis (1997): 2,331
Eric Dickerson (1984): 2,212
Adrian…— Eliot Shorr-Parks (@EliotShorrParks) January 17, 2025
Dickerson took the league by storm as a rookie in 1983 by operating for a league-high 1,808 yards and scoring 20 whole touchdowns, 18 on the bottom.
In all, he led the NFL in speeding yards 4 instances however by no means got here near profitable a Tremendous Bowl championship, as these Rams groups of the Nineteen Eighties merely didn’t have the horses to go all the way in which.
The Eagles, however, went 14-3 this season and seem to have an actual shot at attending to the massive recreation and profitable all of it.
Barkley’s arrival as a free agent this previous offseason reinvigorated an Eagles workforce that went to the Tremendous Bowl two seasons in the past however collapsed down the stretch final season earlier than dropping within the wild-card spherical of the playoffs.
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