Eagles working again Saquon Barkley is continuous his march towards Eric Dickerson’s NFL document for dashing yards in a season, and he has a good chance of breaking it.
Barkley has 1,623 dashing yards this season. Dickerson’s document is 2,105 yards, set in a 16-game season in 1984. So Barkley wants 483 yards within the Eagles’ ultimate 4 video games to interrupt Dickerson’s document. That’s a mean of 121 yards a sport. So far this season Barkley has averaged 125 yards a sport.
The Eagles’ remaining video games are house towards the Steelers, at Washington, house towards the Cowboys and residential towards the Giants. The Steelers have run protection, however the Eagles’ ultimate three opponents are close to the underside of the league in dashing yards allowed, and Barkley ought to thrive towards them.
There’s an excellent probability that Barkley will head into the season finale towards his former workforce, the Giants, inside attain of Dickerson’s document. It could be the signature second of Barkley’s profession to develop into the single-season dashing king in a finale towards the workforce that allow him stroll in free company.
A complicating issue is whether or not the Eagles may have something to play for in Week 18. They could be locked into the No. 2 seed within the NFC, which might usually imply resting their high gamers. But Eagles coach Nick Sirianni would absolutely love to present Barkley the chance to set the document, and the Eagles may play him simply lengthy sufficient to get it. And Giants followers is not going to be comfortable watching the participant workforce proprietor John Mara known as the preferred Giant by far breaking the document in an Eagles uniform.
