Will Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry help change the free agent market for NFL running backs? Barkley hopes so.
The Cincinnati Bengals traded Mixon, who ran for over 1,000 yards last season, for a seventh-round pick instead of releasing him. Houston signed him to $8.5 million per year on a three-year deal. than they usually like to. There are a lot of moving parts on any given game day, but it’s hard to argue that Barkley isn’t the player most responsible for three of the Eagles’ four wins.after rushing for 176 yards last week, was asked Friday if he thought what he and Henry were doing so far this season would change the trend of how the league views free-agent running backs.
Christian McCaffrey, the injured San Francisco 49ers running back, is the highest-paid back in the NFL at $19 million per season, and Barkley mentioned him Friday as someone who “got paid the way he should be paid.” But 102 players in the league make more money per year than McCaffrey. Ten players on the Eagles make more money per season than Barkley, and one of them is James Bradberry.
That topic was brought up to Barkley on Friday, that some teams prefer cycling through running backs on their rookie deals, and Barkley knew where the question was going so he jumped in before it ended.