NEW ORLEANS – Since 2009, there have solely been 4 2,000-yard speeding seasons within the NFL.
It started with Chris Johnson, recognized endlessly as “CJ2K” after his 2009 season with the Tennessee Titans. Then, Adrian Peterson defied all odds when he got here again to the Minnesota Vikings after tearing his ACL in 2011, speeding for two,097 in 2012.
Lastly, Derrick Henry, one other Titans operating again, notched 2,027 yards through the 2020 marketing campaign, and he nearly acquired it once more with the Baltimore Ravens in 2024.
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Mark Ingram attends the tenth Annual Unbridled Eve Kentucky Derby Gala at The Galt Home Lodge on Could 5, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Pictures for Unbridled Eve)
The 2024 season’s prime rusher, although, was Philadelphia Eagles star Saquon Barkley, who had one former operating again star believing his marketing campaign was higher than all those talked about earlier than.
“In latest reminiscence, man, simply the influence he had coming from the Giants and going to the Eagles in season one, is second to none for positive,” Mark Ingram II, the New Orleans Saints legend again on the town for Tremendous Bowl LIX the place Barkley shall be taking part in, informed Fox Information Digital on Radio Row. “We’ve seen some particular performances from backs, however his season is second to none.
“What he’s been capable of do, the worth he’s proven to the Eagles group, the worth he’s displaying to the Eagles’ offense. It has been a particular season.”
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Relating to operating backs, what Ingram loves most is when a participant is an entire again. That interprets to greater than only a north-to-south, bulldozing runner. A do-it-all again cannot solely cowl all of the operating lanes, however he can move catch and block out of the backfield.
Barkley has showcased he can do all that in his six seasons with the Giants, however Ingram can’t imagine the extent he has completed it at up so far.
“The highlight-reel runs he’s had, velocity, energy, agility, catching the soccer and leaping over folks backwards. He’s working at a excessive degree proper now,” he defined, whereas additionally pertaining to his work with the American Gaming Affiliation this week. “He is within the zone and that’s why the Eagles are at the place they’re at proper now due to Saquon Barkley.”
Philadelphia Eagles’ Jalen Hurts, #1, and Saquon Barkley, #26, have a good time after Hurts ran the ball for a landing within the second half of an NFL soccer recreation in Arlington, Texas, on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Picture/Gareth Patterson)
Barkley led the league in speeding with 2,005 yards, and he might need damaged Eric Dickerson’s single-season speeding yards report (2,105) if he had not sat out the whole Week 18 regular-season finale in opposition to his former Giants. Not solely that, he additionally had 33 receptions for 278 yards and added two touchdowns by the air to mark 15 complete on the season.
Barkley’s large manufacturing in 2024 is a transparent cause why the Eagles are at the moment in the identical place they had been two seasons in the past, after they had been dealing with the identical Kansas Metropolis Chiefs within the “Massive Recreation.”
Is Barkley the distinction maker this time round, although? Time, 60 minutes to be precise, on Sunday, will present the soccer world whether or not that’s true or false.
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One factor is for positive: Barkley is particular, irrespective of which means you spin it. Ingram can title something a operating again ought to do on gameday, and Barkley does it at an elite degree.
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People are anticipated to legally wager a report $1.39 billion {dollars} on Tremendous Bowl LIX this yr, which has led Ingram to workforce up with the American Gaming Affiliation to evangelise having a betting gameplan.
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Before everything, have a funds and keep on with it. Be accountable, wager legally and don’t be harassing gamers – sending Venmos, sending CashApps when they don’t hit your prop bets. Get pleasure from it, respect it. It’s presupposed to be leisure.
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Ingram finds it loopy that some followers take betting to the intense, particularly in the case of what he calls bashing gamers by numerous means as a result of they didn’t win.
“It’s loopy. Folks Venmo-ing, folks DMing. It’s loopy, man. The gamers didn’t set the over/underneath for themselves, Vegas did. So, be mad at Vegas. The gamers are on the market attempting to do every little thing they will to assist their workforce win a recreation.”
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