Saquon Barkley isn’t going anywhere.
After the Eagles’ 27-10 loss to the Commanders on Sunday night, Barkley said the team had already told him what was reported earlier in the day: he will not be traded before next week’s deadline.
“I would love to be here. I plan on being here,” Barkley said.
“I don’t like the way the season’s going. I’m not one of those guys that’s like, ‘Oh, the season’s not going the way we [want], let’s jump ship.’
That’s not the type of personality I have. Not the type of person I am.
“So I’d rather be part of … right now we have a problem to fix. And hopefully I could be one of the reasons why we fix it.”
Barkley said he has no interest in leaving a struggling team, even with the Eagles mired in a six-game losing streak. He said the focus now has to be on solving the issues in front of them.
On Sunday night, Barkley was clearly limited while playing through hamstring and back injuries, the same issues that bothered him a week earlier against Dallas. He was on a pitch count against Washington and spent his time on the sideline stretching and trying to stay loose whenever he wasn’t on the field.
Even so, he finished with 13 carries for 30 yards and a touchdown, plus one catch for 24 yards. He said the Eagles had a plan for his workload and praised Elijah Mitchell for handling snaps when he was out.
Still, Barkley made it clear the injuries are a grind.
“It’s football. Everybody’s going through something,” he said.
“I don’t want to try to make mine seem like it’s any more or less than anybody else. I’m just frustrated because my mind is there but with the hammy and all that stuff, my body is not really where I need to be right now.
But I just gotta keep grinding, rehabbing. Just continue to try to get stronger and better.”
When asked whether he ever questions playing through those injuries for a team in this kind of stretch, Barkley didn’t hesitate.
“No,” Barkley said flatly.
After the loss, he said the Eagles need to stay together and tighten up the details. In his view, those details are what’s hurting them most right now.
The Eagles are holding onto Barkley in part because they expect him to matter to the 2027 team. When he’s healthy, he still looks like a difference-maker. And if Philadelphia can bounce back quickly next year, having him in the fold would matter.
But this version of the Eagles is a far cry from the one that rode Barkley’s 2,000-yard season in 2024 to a Super Bowl run. These Eagles have now been pushed around in back-to-back weeks by two division opponents.
“I feel like teams are taking shots on us, yeah,” Barkley said. “That’s how it works.
That’s how it goes. We’re not the big bad Eagles anymore, I guess, right?
We got to understand that, but we still have the talent. We still have a lot of talent.”
For now, that talent includes Barkley - and he’s staying put.
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