Eric Dickerson can breathe a sigh of reduction for an additional season. His single-season speeding document will stay intact.
The Philadelphia Eagles have determined to relaxation a few of their starters on Sunday towards the Giants, and a type of starters will likely be operating again Saquon Barkley.
Barkley is having a historic season in his first 12 months with the Eagles and has pulled inside shut vary of Dickerson’s speeding document.
With the choice made for Barkley to relaxation on Sunday, he’ll end the season with 2,005 speeding yards, simply 101 yards shy of breaking Dickerson’s document.
Barkley breaking the all-time document towards his former staff that did not wish to pay him within the offseason would have been the right approach to do it, however Philadelphia head coach Nick Sirianni has made the choice to relaxation Saquon and several other different starters.
When requested about his opinion and ideas on breaking the document, Barkley has made it recognized that he has greater targets in thoughts.
Sirianni mentioned there have been a number of elements that went into the choice to relaxation the starters. Components resembling Philadelphia having its bye in Week 5, which means it has performed a recreation in 12 consecutive weeks.
Barkley does have a historical past of accidents in his profession, in order that can be one thing that was taken under consideration by Sirianni.
Irrespective of the results of Sunday’s recreation towards the Giants, Philadelphia will stay the No. 2 seed and host both the Commanders or Packers within the first spherical of the playoffs.
