PHILADELPHIA - Saquon Barkley will enter Super Bowl LIX needing only 30 rushing yards to break the NFL single-season record (including playoffs) set by Hall of
Saquon Barkley hopes to win the Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles but two years ago he rooted against them.
Eagles running back Saquon Barkley is having a historic season. Here's his monstrous 2024 season by the numbers.
Early preview of the Philadelphia Eagles opponent in Super Bowl LIX the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes
Barkley is near the top of the short list of all-time great Philadelphia sports free-agent signings. He ran for 2,005 yards, rips off 60-yard scoring runs with the ease of a Joel Embiid layup and has turned the offense into its most elite dual threat since the halcyon days of Donovan McNabb and Terrell Owens.
Saquon Barkley is chasing history in his first season with the Philadelphia Eagles. The two sides are also chasing Super Bowl glory. That's precisely the thought process when Barkley signed his three-year free agent contract with the Eagles during the offseason.
Saquon Barkley rushed for over 2,000 yards in 2024, so it's no surprise his peers recognized him as the league's best offensive player over a pair of elite quarterbacks.
The Eagles are the only team that beat Vince Lombardi in the postseason, handing the legendary Packers coach a 17-13 loss in the 1960 NFL Championship. That was Lombardi’s second year as head coach in Green Bay and his first playoff game with the team.
Brandon Marshall was once a New York Giant, and while he loves the organization, he believes they should expect that fan's qualms with Saquon Barkley's dream season are warranted.
In Super Bowl LIX, Eagles running back Saquon Barkley has an outside chance at doing something that has never been done before.
Woodson revived his career in Green Bay and won AP Defensive Player of the Year in 2009. The next season he helped the Packers get to the Super Bowl where they won their fifth title despite losing Woodson to a broken collarbone late in the first half.