Eric Dickerson’s single-season rushing record is safe. There will be no need for an asterisk.
The Philadelphia Eagles are planning on resting running back Saquon Barkley on Sunday against his former team the New York Giants.
The Eagles are the NFC East champs and coach Nick Sirianni is going to rest Barkley and other regulars before they head into the playoffs.
Barkley finishes with 2,005 rushing yards, 101 shy of Dickerson.
“He will probably be somebody that rests,” Sirianni said Wednesday.
Dickerson didn’t want his record to fall.
“These people who say, ‘records are meant to be broken,’ you ain’t got no record,” Dickerson told USA TODAY Sports on Sunday, after Barkley ripped off his 11th 100-yard game of the season at the expense of the Dallas Cowboys.
“You don’t have one. When you get those records, you want to hang on to them. No matter if it was in bowling and you had 30 strikes in a row, you don’t want nobody to break that. The fastest mile ever, you don’t want nobody to break that. Those are true accomplishments. You can always look back and that record’s been held for 40 years now.”