Philadelphia Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley is already looking ahead to next season, believing he and the team can go even further moving forward.
„It’s a great story, right?“ said Philadelphia Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley when asked to sum up the last 10 months leading up to Super Bowl LIX, where he and his squad came out victorious.
Barkley sat inside a Raising Cane’s in Trevose, Pennsylvania, speaking to the media, reflecting on what just happened on Sunday: the Eagles beating the Kansas City Chiefs to stop NFL history and hoist the franchise’s second Lombardi Trophy as champions of the 2024 season.
Barkley was the AP Offensive Player of the Year, entering the 2,000-yard rushing club to lead the NFL in that category while being a catalyst for a stacked Eagles bunch that got redemption from their Super Bowl LVII loss.
If you asked Barkley if he was going to hoist the trophy in Philadelphia even just last year, he’d probably say no. But after the New York Giants allowed him to walk into free agency, the Eagles came calling and they struck a deal.
The rest is quite literally history.
„You kinda can’t make it up“, Barkley, who was joined by Raising Cane’s founder Todd Graves and hundreds of Eagles fans to celebrate the Super Bowl LIX win, told reporters. „But for me, I look at it more of the people that were with me during it. My family, my friends, the love and support they’ve had for me. Then, not losing faith.
„If you would’ve told me when I was 19 or 20 years old that it would take me seven years to have the type of year I did and to win the Super Bowl, I probably wouldn’t have thought that was the case.
