Two images of Saquon Barkley stand out inside the halls of Whitehall High, his alma mater. One is a close-up portrait of him as a member of the class of 2015 in black and white. He is looking directly into the camera and smiling faintly.

Saquon Barkley sat with his NFC East Champions hat backward and askew. He wasn’t wearing the T-shirt that came with it. “I didn’t even know that was a thing, to be honest,” the running back said of the swag.

Saquon Barkley is the latest running back to have a 2,000-yard season, the first to achieve the feat since Derrick Henry (2020) and the ninth in NFL history. Barkley is the seventh of the 2,000-yard rushers whose team qualified for the postseason,