Saquon Barkley wants 483 yards in ultimate 4 video games to interrupt NFL single-season document

Eagles operating again Saquon Barkley is constant 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 median of 121 yards a recreation. Thus far this season Barkley has averaged 125 yards a recreation.

The Eagles’ remaining video games are house in opposition to the Steelers, at Washington, house in opposition to the Cowboys and residential in opposition to the Giants. The Steelers have a superb 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 in opposition to them.

There’s an excellent probability that Barkley will head into the season finale in opposition to his former group, the Giants, inside attain of Dickerson’s document. It might be the signature second of Barkley’s profession to change into the single-season dashing king in a finale in opposition to the group that allow him stroll in free company.

A complicating issue is whether or not the Eagles could have something to play for in Week 18. They is likely to be locked into the No. 2 seed within the NFC, which might usually imply resting their high gamers. However Eagles coach Nick Sirianni would certainly love to present Barkley the chance to set the document, and the Eagles would possibly play him simply lengthy sufficient to get it. And Giants followers won’t be completely satisfied watching the participant group proprietor John Mara referred to as the preferred Big by far breaking the document in an Eagles uniform.