Category: NFL Stats

NFL stats leaders: Where Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, A.J. Brown rank entering Week 17

Where Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, A.J. Brown rank among the NFL stat leaders entering Week 17

We’re entering Week 17 of the 2024 NFL season, and several Eagles are among the league leaders in their respective positions.

With two games to play, Saquon Barkley is pacing towards 2,000 and potentially Eric Dickerson’s NFL rushing record.  A.J. Brown and Jalen Hurts are having down years from a statistical standpoint, but they Philadelphia at 12-3 and in the No. 2 seed in the NFC with two weeks remaining.

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NFL Passing Yards Leaders

Hurts is 20th in the NFL with 2,903

Hurts is 18th in the NFL with 18 touchdown passes

NFL Rushing Yards Leaders

Saquon Barkley leads the NFL with 1,838 rushing yards.  Barkley is 162 yards away from 2,000 and 277 yards from Eric Dickerson’s single-season rushing record.

Barkley is tied for 2nd in the NFL with 13 rushing touchdowns.

NFL Receiving Yards Leaders

Brown is 31st in the NFL with 64 catches

Brown is 21st in the NFL with six receiving touchdowns

Brown is 9th in the NFL with 1,043 yards receiving despite missing four games.

Will Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry’s success change how RBs are viewed in free agency?

Will Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry’s success change how the running back position is viewed in free agency?

Five of the NFL’s top ten leading rushers in 2024 were on different teams in 2023, and three of those players, Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry, and Josh Jacobs, were vocal about running backs getting the short end of the stick when it comes to contracts, and a fair pay scale for the position.

Before this season, only Christian McCaffrey ($19M) and Alvin Kamara ($15M) were the outliers for massive contracts for running backs. Since then, Jonathan Taylor scored a deal for $14 million per season, while Barkley ($12.5M) and Jacobs ($12M) have proven the doubters the wrong on dishing out considerable contracts to running backs.

Ahead of the Week 8 matchup against the Bengals, Barkley was asked if his and Derrick Henry’s success this season can change how the position is viewed in free agency and when new deals are discussed.

Barkley is among the top five in rushing yards, while Henry is on pace to shatter the league’s single-season rushing record. Joe Mixon, David Montgomery, and Aaron Jones flourish with new teams or deals.

James Conner (Cardinals), Jones, Najee Harris, Nick Chubb, J.K. Dobbins, and Chuba Hubbard are among the big names who’ll test free agency, and this new theory that dual-threat running backs deserve to be paid like their counterparts at wide receiver.