{"id":213246,"date":"2025-07-17T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/213246\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:50:08","slug":"saquon-barkley-named-best-nfl-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/213246\/","title":{"rendered":"Saquon Barkley named ‘Best NFL Player’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Josh Allen talks all things Buffalo Bills and the upcoming NFL season<\/p>\n

Josh Allen chats with Chris Bumbaca about the upcoming season and his partnership with Natrol.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

Saquon Barkley<\/a> is having a year to remember.<\/p>\n

The running back cleaned up during the 2024 NFL season, receiving just about every award or honor a player could possibly ask for. He is a Super Bowl champion, an All-Pro, a Pro Bowler, MVP finalist, the Offensive Player of the Year and even the Madden NFL 26 cover athlete<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On July 16, Barkley learned that he would be making room for one more thing on the mantel \u2013 the ESPYS’ “Best NFL Player” award.<\/p>\n

Barkley received the award over fellow nominees Josh Allen<\/a>, Lamar Jackson<\/a> and Patrick Surtain II<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a continued run of success for the Eagles’ running back, dating back to a big decision he made last offseason.<\/p>\n

Barkley famously traded in New York Giants<\/a>‘ blue for Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>‘ green. This offseason, Barkley was rewarded for his work in the City of Brotherly Love, inking a two-year, $41.2 million extension<\/a> to remain with the Birds.<\/p>\n

Barkley rushed for a record 2,504 yards over the regular season and postseason and led the way for the Super Bowl 59 champions, who crushed the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> in the big game.<\/p>\n

It will be hard to top Barkley’s 2024 season. While the awards keep rolling in, the Eagles’ star is tasked with giving an encore performance as the 2025 season nears.<\/p>\n

For now, there is still a little time to bask in the glory before it’s back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Allen talks all things Buffalo Bills and the upcoming NFL season Josh Allen chats with Chris Bumbaca…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[857,247,265,2018,346,739,25,7,519,20842,2512,789,856,872,805,110,1460,895,248,267,206,56,88,6,35196,245,537,858,8206,242,109,530,2017,894,9,266,8205,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-213246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-allen","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-barkley","12":"tag-chiefs","13":"tag-city","14":"tag-eagles","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-giants","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-ii","19":"tag-jackson","20":"tag-josh","21":"tag-josh-allen","22":"tag-kansas","23":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","24":"tag-lamar","25":"tag-lamar-jackson","26":"tag-national","27":"tag-national-sports","28":"tag-new","29":"tag-new-york-giants","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-nfl","32":"tag-nfl-hub","33":"tag-overall","34":"tag-overall-positive","35":"tag-patrick","36":"tag-patrick-surtain-ii","37":"tag-philadelphia","38":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","39":"tag-positive","40":"tag-saquon","41":"tag-saquon-barkley","42":"tag-sports","43":"tag-sports-news","44":"tag-surtain","45":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114866541462240699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}