I’m just a competitor..."One of my favorite players of all time, probably my favorite player of all time, is Barry Sanders, so probably similar to that. Maybe one day it will be out of nowhere. I’ll probably be balling and just be like,

PHILADELPHIA -- Bring up Barry Sanders, Marshall Faulk or Eric Dickerson, and Saquon Barkley can get into a conversation for hours. The best running back in the NFL is truly an historian of the game.

Contrary to public perception, Saquon Barkley hasn’t spent every waking moment of the Eagles offseason program holed up in the gym, squatting a barbell practically overflowing with plates on either end.