{"id":749027,"date":"2026-07-07T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749027\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:09:09","slug":"saquon-needs-things-perfectly-set-up-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749027\/","title":{"rendered":"Saquon &#8216;needs things perfectly set up for him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler spoke with NFL coaches and front office officials about the league\u2019s best running backs. Barkley ranked third behind Bijan Robinson and Jahmyr Gibbs. \u201cMy only criticism is that he doesn\u2019t always produce when things aren\u2019t completely clean,\u201d an NFL coordinator said of Barkley, adding that Barkley should be treated as a three-down back. \u201cThat\u2019s dating back to the Giants. Tends to need things perfectly set up for him.\u201d This could explain why Barkley had a disappointing 2025 campaign in an Eagles offense that struggled to move the ball for much of the season. Barkley, who is widely expected to have a bigger role in the Philadelphia passing offense in 2026, last season ranked 45th out of 60 qualifying backs in yards after contact per rush, alongside Woody Marks and Breece Hall. Tank Bigsby, Barkley\u2019s backfield mate, led the NFL in yards after contact per attempt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler spoke with NFL coaches and front office officials about the league\u2019s best running backs. Barkley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-749027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}