Take Away Saquon Barkley And This RB Looks ELITE
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Aug 24, 2026
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Mon, August 24, 2026
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Saquon BarkleyWill Shipley
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Saquon Barkley
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Ian Hartitz uses Saquon Barkley as the elite efficiency benchmark for evaluating Tank Bigsby; acknowledges Barkley is 'worse at football' than Bigsby when comparing their 2025 season performance, but frames this as a comparative analysis rather than a standalone projection.
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Will Shipley is identified as the primary backfield competition for Tank Bigsby in the Eagles run-first offense, but minimal threat to Bigsby's projected 20+ touches per game.
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Episode Transcript
0:00You take away Saquon Barkley from the
0:01picture and you have
0:04someone who is worse at football, okay?
0:06But,
0:07if you force an alien who has never
0:09watched football before to just watch
0:11Saquon and Tank Bigsby over the last
0:13season, definitely not the last two, but
0:15just in 2025, I think that alien would
0:18think pretty favorably of Tank Bigsby,
0:19okay? And why not? The dude's been
0:22awesome, okay? The last two seasons cuz
0:24it's not even a small sample size. We're
0:26not doing the Keaton Mitchell sort of
0:27thing here, with all due respect to
0:28Keaton Mitchell.
0:3044 running backs 200-plus carries over
0:32these past two seasons. Tank Bigsby is
0:34eighth in yards per carry, first in
0:36yards after contact per carry, second in
0:38tackles avoided per carry, and fifth in
0:39explosive rush rate. RotoWire offensive
0:41line ranks have the Eagles number two.
0:44It's a sentiment reflected generally
0:46around the industry. I don't think we're
0:47going to get too much pass-down upside.
0:49I was surprised though in the preseason
0:51to see a true every-down role. Tank did
0:53not leave the field while working
0:55alongside Anthony Gould and the fact
0:56those starters, as I use air quotes for
0:58audio listeners, when he was out there.
1:00Man, love the O-line, very good
1:03explosive talent. [music]
1:04We know it's a run-first offense that
1:06will be signing up to get this dude
1:0720-plus touches per game, and the
1:08only backfield competition Will
1:10Shipley and whatever is left of Damien
1:12Pierce.
