The NFC East has a brand new winner for a file twentieth straight 12 months after the Eagles dished out a 41-7 hammering to the Cowboys on the again of 167 dashing yards from Saquon Barkley.
The 27-year-old is simply the ninth participant ever to interrupt the two,000-yard mark in a season. He has Eric Dickerson’s coveted file of two,105, set in 1984, in his sights however might not have the prospect to interrupt it.
Because the Eagles don’t have anything to play for subsequent week, head coach Nick Sirianni would relaxation his star gamers for the play-offs in regular circumstances.
“I all the time should do what’s proper for the soccer crew to achieve our targets of what we have to do,” Sirianni mentioned. “I’ve acquired so much to consider.”
Barkley would want 101 yards subsequent week to seize one of many largest data within the NFL, albeit enjoying a recreation greater than Dickerson, and that recreation simply occurs to be towards the New York Giants – who controversially let him depart in the summertime.