Contemporary off of his record-setting season, Saquon Barkley has been rewarded with an unprecedented payday.
Barkley reached a two-year, $41.2 million contract extension with the Philadelphia Eagles, based on ESPN, making him the highest-paid operating again in NFL historical past.
The extension contains $36 million in assured cash and comes lower than a yr after Philly signed Barkley away from the Giants for $37.5 million over three years.
Barkley led the NFL with 2,005 speeding yards in 16 video games final season, marking the ninth time a participant eclipsed 2,000 yards on the bottom. He was named the NFL’s Offensive Participant of the Yr after profitable NFC Offensive Participant of the Week honors 4 occasions.
The 28-year-old Barkley added 499 speeding yards and 5 touchdowns within the playoffs, main the Eagles to their second Tremendous Bowl championship. The two,504 speeding yards Barkley totaled over the common season and playoffs have been probably the most in NFL historical past.
Barkley completed 101 yards shy of breaking the regular-season speeding report set by Eric Dickerson in 1984 after he and different Eagles starters sat out of an inconsequential Week 18 recreation towards the Giants.
In his lone look towards the Giants, Barkley ran for 176 yards and a landing within the Eagles’ 28-3 win at MetLife Stadium on Oct. 20.
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Again web page for Feb. 11, 2025: Ultimate outcomes say season couldn’t have gone higher for Philly, or worse for Large Blue. In lower than a yr, Saquon Barkley has gone from Large, to Eagle, to Tremendous Bowl champion whereas his former group has gone in reverse.
The Giants drafted Barkley with the No. 2 general decide in 2018 when Dave Gettleman was the overall supervisor. Barkley spent six seasons with the Giants, with whom he received NFL Rookie of the Yr, earned two Professional Bowl choices and surpassed 1,000 speeding yards 3 times.
The final of Barkley’s seasons with the Giants got here in 2023 after present normal supervisor Joe Schoen used the franchise tag on him.
An extended-term contract extension with the Giants by no means got here, and Schoen allowed Barkely to check the open market final March, then declined to make him a ultimate supply, as documented on HBO’s offseason version of “Hard Knocks.”
“I’m happy for Saquon,” Schoen stated final week on the NFL Scouting Mix in Indianapolis. “Obviously, [he] went on to win the Super Bowl, and we wish him nothing but the best. Always gonna evaluate all the decisions you make, and we were at a different place in our build.”
Final offseason, the San Francisco 49ers made Christian McCaffrey the NFL’s top-earning operating again with a two-year, $38 million contract extension.
Barkley’s new deal makes him the primary operating again with a contract exceeding $20 million per yr.
Initially Printed: March 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM EST
