With two weeks remaining within the 2024 NFL common season, the Philadelphia Eagles have secured a playoff berth for the fourth consecutive 12 months.
The Eagles can safe internet hosting a first-round postseason sport by both profitable their subsequent sport towards the Dallas Cowboys or through a Washington Commanders loss.
Philadelphia is on this place because of the historic season working again Saquon Barkley has had for the franchise.
This 12 months, Barkley has rushed for an NFL-best 1,838 yards, a mark that’s 267 yards shy of the league document set by Rams nice Eric Dickerson in 1984.
Barkley might surpass that whole by taking part in on this weekend’s sport towards the Cowboys and the next week’s matchup with the New York Giants as he’s already rushed for 242 dashing yards towards these two opponents earlier this season.
Though the all-time mark is achievable, the Eagles might make a stunning choice in Week 18 ought to the staff’s playoff positioning be set on Sunday, NFL insider Adam Schefter revealed.
“If the Eagles seed is in hand and there’s nothing at stake, I might say that they’d not wish to get Saquon the document as a result of … they’d wish to sit down, relaxation their gamers, and ensure the Giants win that final sport so the Giants then fall from (draft place) one or two to seven and don’t get their quarterback of the longer term,” Schefter stated.
Adam Schefter recommended that the Eagles might sit their starters in Week 18 and provides the Giants the win to ensure the Giants fall down the draft order😬 #Giants100 pic.twitter.com/MCQoK1uyXa
— Anthony Rivardo (@Anthony_Rivardo) December 24, 2024
Presently, the Giants have the No. 1 general draft place as the one staff with simply two wins this season.
5 groups are at the moment 3-12, and several other groups might bounce in entrance of New York ought to the Giants win one other contest this 12 months.
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