Saquon Barkley was the straw that sparked the drink for the Philadelphia Eagles en route to their Super bowl Lix title last season. Now, after hanging on a lucrative extension with the organization earlier this offseason, he hopes to be a catalyst so that his covering colleagues follow suit.
More specifically, Barkley has signed a Extension of $ 41.2 million over two years With the Eagles, which makes him the best -paid ball carrier of all time with an average annual value of $ 20.6 million. He is the first ball carrier to win more than $ 20 million per season. Speaking earlier this week, Barkley noted that he was aiming for this extension “does what it is supposed to do” and moves the bar of the running market even more for her position comrades.
“For (Bijan Robinson) and (Jahmyr Gibbs) – I know that (James) Cook is also – all these guys must be paid, I hope they beat it,” he said on Monday, via Phly. “This is how I look at him. I don’t care:” Will this guy be paid more than me? “It is not this sport.
As Barkley noted, reset of the market for a given position helps not only the individual to be paid, but also creates another level of gain potential for players who have contract extensions on the horizon. For example, Barkley noted that Cook “was the most excited” of the runners he had heard when signing his new agreement. Rightly so, the Buffalo Bills Back is due for an extension while it is entering the last year of its recruit contract and has just led the Nfl With 16 precipitated affected. Although it remains to be seen if he will exceed what Barkley has obtained Eagles, this has certainly helped to increase his requested price.
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Barkley has just come out of a sensational season with Philadelphia, who signed it as a free agent of the last offseason. In addition to helping Eagles in a title of the Super Bowl, he won the honors of the player of the offensive year after having total 2,005 yards on the ground and 13 affected. This has led to this extension, which should now advance the market for all runners from now on.
