Eagles RB Saquon Barkley’s historic 2024 season by the numbers

Saquon Barkley was one of many premier working backs within the NFL throughout his six seasons with the New York Giants (2018-23), however he has been traditionally nice in his 2024 debut season with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Highlighted by main the league with 2,005 regular-season dashing yards, Barkley has been the driving power of a Philadelphia working sport that ranked second within the league (179.3 dashing yards per sport) and was sturdy sufficient to catapult the Eagles to Super Bowl LIX (Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports app).

This is Barkley’s monstrous 2024 season by the numbers:

5: The variety of dashing touchdowns Barkley has this postseason. With three extra dashing scores, he’d tie Terrell Davis for probably the most dashing scores in a single postseason (eight).

5.8: Barkley rushed for a career-best 5.8 yards per carry within the common season — an Eagles document for a working again with at the least 100 carries.

9: Barkley turned simply the ninth participant in NFL historical past to hurry for two,000 yards in a single season, offering Eric Dickerson, Adrian Peterson, Jamal Lewis, Barry Sanders, Derrick Henry, Terrell Davis, Chris Johnson and O.J. Simpson with some new firm.

10.4: In Barkley’s first sport towards the Giants (Week 7), he rushed for 176 yards and one landing on 10.4 yards per carry, which stands as his highest mark of the season (common season plus postseason). Barkley did not take a handoff after the third quarter and completed 13 yards wanting the dashing document for a working again of their first sport towards their former workforce; Cedric Benson rushed for 189 yards towards the Chicago Bears in 2009.

14: Barkley has rushed for 100-plus yards in 14 of the 19 video games that he has appeared on this season (common season plus postseason).

34.8: Barkley completed with an NFL-high 2,283 yards from scrimmage within the common season (2,005 dashing yards, 278 receiving yards), with the Eagles posting a mixed 6,565 yards from scrimmage. In different phrases, Barkley accounted for 34.8% of Philadelphia’s whole offense.

40: Barkley led the NFL with seven carries that went for at the least 40 yards within the common season. He was additionally second with 17 carries that went at the least 20 yards.

60: Three of Barkley’s 5 dashing touchdowns this postseason have been for 60-plus yards; he posted 62- and 78-yard landing runs towards the Los Angeles Rams within the divisional spherical and a 60-yard dashing rating towards the Washington Commanders within the NFC Championship Sport.

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100: Barkley completed 100 yards wanting Dickerson’s NFL document for dashing yards in a single season (2,105 in 1984). The previous was on tempo to interrupt the latter’s document, as he was averaging 125.3 dashing yards per sport, however Barkley was rested for Philadelphia’s Week 18 sport, because the Eagles have been locked into the No. 2 seed within the NFC playoffs.

168: Barkley has rushed for 442 yards on 6.7 yards per carry this postseason, trailing the all-time dashing document for a single postseason by 168 yards; John Riggins rushed for 610 yards within the 1982 postseason for Washington. Subsequent, Barkley will face a Kansas City Chiefs protection that surrendered simply 101.8 dashing yards per sport within the common season (eighth within the NFL).

170: Barkley’s 442 postseason dashing yards are 170 greater than the No. 2 rusher this postseason, Buffalo Bills RB James Cook, who rushed for 272 yards and three touchdowns on 5.1 yards per carry in three postseason video games.

205: Barkley rushed for 205 yards within the Eagles’ divisional-round victory over the Rams, which is the fifth-most yards a participant has rushed for in a playoff sport.

222: Barkley rushed for two,005 yards — an Eagles franchise document — in 16 regular-season video games. In the meantime, his former workforce (NYG) rushed for a mixed 1,783 yards and 13 touchdowns in 17 video games. Barkley rushed for 222 extra yards than all the Giants workforce and completed with the identical variety of dashing scores in a single much less sport.

255: Philadelphia’s star again rushed for a career-high 255 yards within the Eagles’ Week 12 victory over the Rams, which is the ninth-most yards a participant has rushed for in a regular-season sport.

345: Barkley’s legendary common season got here with him main the NFL with 345 carries — whereas not suiting up for one sport, thoughts you.

693: Barkley rushed for 1,000-plus yards in three of his six seasons with the Giants, topping at 1,312 dashing yards in 2022. That top mark is 693 yards lower than his 2024 regular-season output (2,005 dashing yards).

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