The next Eagle up in the Top 100 actually fell quite a bit in the rankings.

With Hurts and then Cooper DeJean, Mitchell and Baun being previously announced, Barkley becomes the fifth Eagle for 2026 to appear in the rankings.

Of course, he wasn’t on a record-setting pace like he was in 2024-25 season, so his 2026 ranking dropping isn’t a suprise, but it did drop 33 spots from number 1.

No. 34 on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2026…@Eagles RB Saquon Barkley! @NFLFilms pic.twitter.com/BfkAIueuXw

— NFL (@NFL) August 6, 2026

Barkley is hoping to have a more productive year in 2026 as the team will hopefully have an offense that functions more beyond get Saquon the ball and pray or just chuck it deep to Smith or Brown.

Last year, Barkley was slowed down as he was hit behind the line of scrimmage on 47.1% of his carries. Sean Mannion’s job is to make sure that doesn’t happen nearly as often so that Barkley can get into the open field and keep making those chunk plays.