Running Back · Philadelphia Eagles

Saquon Barkley

No. 26 · 9th season

Barkley's got regrets, a new offense to learn, and one question about LeBron

Saquon Barkley sat down and said the quiet parts out loud. The Super Bowl still stings. A.J. Brown's absence is something he thinks about. And somehow the Philadelphia 76ers came up too.

Barkley joined the Philadelphia Eagles last season after years with the New York Giants, arriving as the kind of player a city immediately decides it loves or resents. He became the former, quickly. But a championship run that got close enough to feel real ended without a ring, and Barkley isn't pretending otherwise.

He talked about the Super Bowl with the plainness of someone who hasn't quite put it down yet. He talked about wide receiver A.J. Brown — one of the best in the league — whose absence this coming season is a genuine loss for an offense that leaned on him. And then there's a new offensive coordinator coming in, which means a new system to learn, new timing to build, new relationships to form at the exact moment the team wants to take another run at it.

What makes this offseason read differently than most is the gap between how good last year felt and how much has since changed around Barkley. The roster shifted. The coaching staff shifted. He stayed — and he's clearly paying attention to all of it.

The LeBron-to-the-Sixers take was a bonus. But the rest of it is worth sitting with.

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