The Philadelphia Eagles star running back may be walking away from the game sooner than expected.
Saquon Barkley appeared on Chris Long’s podcast, “The Green Light”, and revealed what his retirement plans are going to look like.
X/@GREENLIGHTBarkley told Long that he could pull a Barry Sanders and hang up the cleats early[/caption]Cover your ears, Eagles fans.
The newly-minted Madden cover athlete made some interesting comments on his future.
“I’ll probably be one of those guys that it’ll be out of nowhere,” Barkley said.
“I’ll probably just wake up one day, whether it’s next year or two years or four years, and just be like, ‘Yeah, it’s over.’
“I don’t think I will ever lose that passion. I’m just a competitor. … The competitive nature is always going to be there.”
Eagles fans of course didn’t like what they heard.
“Saquon better not p*** me off today,” one fan commented on X.
“Do not like that you said next year, or 2 years @saquon,” another added.
“I would be in shambles,” one more added.
Barkley is coming off a Super Bowl-winning season and one of the best individual seasons a running back has ever had, so it’s hard to see him walking away next year or even the year after that.
Barkley’s 2024 season was one for the record booksGetty Barkley capped off his record-breaking season with a victory in Super Bowl LIXGettyBarkley turned 28 the day he became a Super Bowl champion. He rushed for 2,005 yards and 13 touchdowns in the regular season, but it’s what he did in the postseason that put him into the upper echelon of all-time individual seasons.
The former Giant turned Eagle rushed for 499 yards and five touchdowns in four games, leading Philadelphia to their second ever Lombardi Trophy.
It was the third most rushing yards in a postseason of all-time, behind only Terrell Davis’ 581 and John Riggins’ 610.
In total, Barkley rushed for 2,504 yards in the regular season and playoffs, the most ever by a running back.
There were no signs of slowing down during Barkley’s first year in Philadelphia.
He continued his comments about retirement by talking about one of his favorite players, fellow running back, and arguably the greatest of all-time, Barry Sanders.
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“One of my favorite players of all time, probably my favorite player of all time, is Barry Sanders, so probably similar to that,” Barkley said.
“Maybe one day it will be out of nowhere. I’ll probably be ballin’ and just be like, ‘Yeah’ and call it quits.”
Sanders infamously retired unexpectedly at the age of 31.
He had played ten seasons for the Detroit Lions, making the Pro-Bowl each year, and even winning the MVP award once.
Sanders was still dominating between the lines when he decided to walk away,
“The reason I am retiring is very simple,” Sanders said back in 1999.
“My desire to exit the game, is greater than my desire to stay in it.”
Again, Barkley just turned 28 and seems to have a pretty good thing going in Philadelphia, so it would be a massive surprise if he didn’t at least play into his 30s.
Then again, you never know.
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