Eric Dickerson can breathe a sigh of aid for an additional season. His single-season speeding report 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 can 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 report.
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 report.
Barkley breaking the all-time report towards his former crew that did not wish to pay him within the offseason would have been the proper approach to do it, however Philadelphia head coach Nick Sirianni has made the choice to relaxation Saquon and a number of other different starters.
When requested about his opinion and ideas on breaking the report, Barkley has made it recognized that he has greater objectives in thoughts.
Sirianni stated there have been a number of components that went into the choice to relaxation the starters. Components equivalent to Philadelphia having its bye in Week 5, which means it has performed a sport 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 into consideration by Sirianni.
Regardless of the results of Sunday’s sport towards the Giants, Philadelphia will stay the No. 2 seed and host both the Commanders or Packers within the first spherical of the playoffs.
