Eagles star Saquon Barkley will likely be rested in last game, Eric Dickerson’s single-season NFL rushing record safe

Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley will likely not play in the team’s final game of the season, meaning Eric Dickerson’s NFL single-season rushing record will remain safe.

Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley will likely not play in the team’s final game of the season, meaning Eric Dickerson’s NFL single-season rushing record will remain safe. Barkley has 2,005 rushing yards this season, just 101 yards away from Dickerson’s record of 2,105 he set in 1984 with the Los Angeles Rams when NFL teams only played 16 games per regular season; teams now play 17. But having eclipsed 2,000 yards and clinched the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoff seedings in last weeks victory over the Dallas Cowboys, Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni announced on Wednesday that Barkley will “probably” be rested in their Week 18 season finale against Barkley’s former team, the New York Giants, to avoid any potential injury which could hamper the team’s playoff run. “It’s a very special record that’s been standing for a very long time by a great player,” Sirianni told reporters. “It’s a team record that everybody is involved in, so you weigh in all those things. “But at the end of the day, you just try to do what’s best for the team. Again, when the bye was, how guys are feeling, the bumps and bruises we can take care of. We’ve put ourselves in a position to be able to be in this situation. And our goals are to have success and to play good the next game we play. Not only New York, but whoever we play after that. We think this plays into that. “It’s not easy. It wasn’t the easiest decision to go through, but we have great people in this building and had a lot of input from a lot of different people, players included.”