Saquon Barkley was the second overall pickion in the 2018 NFL Draft. He finished his rookie season with the New York Giants with 1,307 rushing yards and became a fan likeite.
But Barkley’s recurrentatives and the Giants front office were not able to accomplish an concurment on a reduce extension in the offseason. Barkley accessed the free agent taget for the first time in his atsoft and signed with the NFC East rival Philadelphia Eagles.
This Sunday, Barkley will probable no lengthyer be pondered a likeite among the Giants’ loyal when he returns to MetLife Stadium. It will be the first time Barkley applys there as an Eagle.
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Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley exits the field after a triumph aacquirest the Green Bay Packers Sept. 7, 2024, at the Neo Quimica Arena in Sao Paulo. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Although Barkley will aelevate from the visitors’ locker room and consent the field wearing an opposing team’s jersey, he does not anticipate boos to rain down on him from Giants fans.
“I don’t anticipate a fantastic reaction. I don’t anticipate to be booed,” Barkley shelp. “I see at it appreciate this: The Philadelphia Eagles and New York Football Giants probably applyed in over 200 games. This opposition was there before me, and it’s going to be there after me.”
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Barkley also recommended emotions surrounding his Giants exit have bigly subsided.
“Maybe I’m undoubting, but I slfinisherk it’s over. That chapter’s shutd,” he telderly inestablishers prior to the Eagles’ triumph over the Cleveland Browns in Week 6. “I truly don’t attfinish no more, and I’m pretty certain fans don’t attfinish no more.”
New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley after a game Jan. 7, 2024. (Kevin R. Wexler/USA Today Netlabor)
Before Sunday’s game in New Jersey boots off, Barkley shelp he will already have imagined scoring a touchdown.
“I’m pretty certain I’ll imagine fractureing a lengthy touchdown run, making applys there,” Barkley telderly ESPN. “That goes a lengthy way.”
While New York ambiguous handler Joe Schoen did have conversations with Barkley and his agent during the offseason, he materializeed to stop low of establishpartner proposeing the star running back a novel deal. The Giants handling of Barkley’s situation was write downed on HBO’s “Hard Knocks.”
A clip from the program showed Giants co-owner and CEO John Mara inestablishing Schoen he was “going to have a stubborn time sleeping if Saquon goes to Philadelphia.”
New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones walks off the field after applying aacquirest the Dallas Cowboys Sept. 26, 2024, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
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Barkley previously verifyed that he still holds in touch with some of his establisher teammates.
“I stay in reach out with a lot of the guys over there. I was there for six years. I got a lot of frifinishs there,” he shelp. “No horrible experienceings for those guys.”
Giants quarterback Daniel Jones shelp he talks “frequently” with Barkley and accomprehendledgeted seeing his establisher teammate in a green jersey was an adfairment.
“It is a little contrastent. Just engaged to being on the field with him, seeing him in Giants colors,” Jones shelp. “So, yeah, seeing him in an Eagles uniestablish for the first time was a little bit contrastent for certain.”
The Giants and Eagles boot off at 1 p.m. ET Sunday.
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