Sunday evening’s matchup between the Eagles and Rams was electrifying, with Philadelphia popping out on prime 37-20 regardless of being a six-point recreation on the half.
But although the Eagles obtained a giant win below the management of Jalen Hurts, he wasn’t essentially the most spectacular participant on the sphere Sunday.
Saquon Barkley was out of this world.
The seventh-year participant had a career-high 255 speeding yards, two speeding scores and 4 receptions for 47 receiving yards. He set the single-game franchise document for speeding yards, surpassing LeSean McCoy who had 217 in 2013. Barkley additionally grew to become the primary participant in Eagles historical past to complete 300 scrimmage yards in a single outing.
But how does this efficiency slot in from a fantasy soccer standpoint? We crunched the numbers and located that Barkley’s efficiency Sunday evening was the very best of any working again this season, and ranks among the many prime 10 single-game performances amongst all working backs during the last 5 seasons, by all three scoring factors (half-point receptions (PPR), full-point PPR, customary)
This obtained us considering: Is Barkley the brand new Christian McCaffrey of fantasy soccer? Over the previous 5 seasons, the Penn State product has had seven 30-point (full-point) fantasy performances whereas McCaffrey has six. If you have a look at mid-point PPR leagues, he has six 30-point video games whereas McCaffrey drops to 4. CMC is statistically a greater go defender, however Barkley’s explosive play makes up for that.
Since 2020, he has had six rushes of fifty+ yards which trails solely Derrick Henry and Jonathan Taylor. When wanting past 50 yards speeding touchdownshe has three, which is third place behind Henry and Taylor. For perspective, “CMC” has three 50+ yard rushes and one 50+ yard speeding rating. On Sunday, Barkley had two speeding scores of 70-plus yards, changing into the primary participant with a number of speeding touchdowns of 70-plus yards in the identical recreation since Maurice Jones-Drew in 2009.
FOX Sports Research has damaged down the working backs with essentially the most 30-point fantasy performs from all three scoring views. While Barkley is not ranked No. 1 on any of the lists under, you will shortly see how his play this 12 months will seemingly land him there. Let’s have a look:
MOST 30 POINT GAMES
RUNNING BACK
FROM 2020 (FULL POINT PPR)
- Derrick Henry: 10
- Saquon Barkley: 7 (obtained 5 this 12 months)
- Alvin Kamara: 7
- Austin Thank you: 7
- Christian McCaffrey: 6
- Josh Jacobs: 5
- Joe Mixon: 5
- Jonathan Taylor: 5
MOST 30 POINT GAMES
RUNNING BACK
FROM 2020 (HALF POINT PPR)
- Derrick Henry: 9
- Saquon Barkley: 6 (obtained 5 this 12 months)
- Austin Thanks: 6
- Alvin Kamara: 6
- Josh Jacobs: 4
- Jonathan Taylor: 4
- Joe Mixon: 4
- Christian McCaffrey: 4
MOST 30 POINT GAMES
RUNNING BACK
FROM 2020 (STANDARD)
- Derrick Henry: 9
- Alvin Kamara: 4
- Saquon Barkley: 3 (all three arrived this 12 months)
- Jonathan Taylor: 3
- Dalvin Cook: 3
- Josh Jacobs: 3
- Joe Mixon: 3
- Christian McCaffrey: 3
As seen above, most of Barkley’s 30-point fantasy video games have come this 12 months. This prompted us to try what McCaffrey’s numbers appeared like by way of the primary 11 video games throughout his historic season final 12 months, and the numbers had been eye-opening.
The 49ers star has totaled 272.8 fantasy factors in 11 video games in 2023 in full-point PPR leagues, 248.8 in half-point leagues and 224.8 in standard-scoring leagues.
Barkley? This 12 months he has 265.9 in full-point PPR leagues, 252.4 in half-point leagues and 238.9 in standard-scoring leagues. That means Barkley has extra factors than CMC at this level within the season in two of the three scoring techniques utilized in fantasy soccer.
Going even decrease, Philly’s working again has 1,649 scrimmage yards and 1,392 speeding yards, whereas McCaffrey had 1,328 and 939 in his first 11 video games in 2023.
This large yardage hole is why Barkley made as a lot of a distinction as McCaffrey did along with his unimaginable quantity of receptions. If he continues at this charge, “Super Saquon” will seemingly be the highest fantasy participant within the league by way of 2025.
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