If Saquon can register a 100-yard game against his former team in Week 18, he will make history.
Barkley finished Sunday’s blowout of the Cowboys with 167 rushing yards, giving him 2,005 on the season – making him just the ninth man ever to cross the 2K threshold on the ground.
This 23-yard run early in the fourth quarter put Saquon over 2K, and was his last run of the game:
Barkley’s 2,005 yards are the eighth-highest total ever (O.J. Simpson had 2,003 in 1973), and he needs just 23 next week to get to 2,028, which would pass Derrick Henry (2,027 in 2020) for a spot in the all-time Top 5.
Of course, the aim is the record, and Barkley has 11 100-yard games this season already, and put up 176 against the Giants at MetLife back in October, his second-highest total of the season.