NFL star Saquon Barkley is all for MLB players fighting against salary cap: 'It should happen'

Saquon Barkley knows precisely what it's similar to beryllium stiffed successful a wage headdress sport.

The Philadelphia Eagles moving backmost rushed for 2,000 yards and won an Offensive Player of the Year Award conscionable 1 play aft the New York Giants decided not to wage him.

Running backs were getting the abbreviated extremity of the instrumentality earlier a caller resurgence, arsenic wide managers felt that the presumption was hardly that valuable. The champion are inactive getting paid, but determination was a batch of recycling passim the league.

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Philadelphia Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley (26) carries during the 2nd fractional of the NFL Super Bowl 59 shot crippled against the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, successful New Orleans. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

In immoderate case, tons of hard decisions are made successful football, whereas shot remains a non-capped sport, resulting successful $700 cardinal contracts and nary headdress casualties.

However, MLB owners person officially projected a wage headdress for the archetypal clip since 1994 - and we each cognize however that turned out. The players person remained steadfast successful saying that a wage headdress is not negotiable, and Barkley is supporting them.

"Whatever is champion for the players, I’m with that. Whatever is for the players," Barkley told Fox News Digital.

"I get however the owners person the powerfulness and worldly similar this, but we spell retired determination and sacrifice our bodies. Athletes spell retired determination and sacrifice their bodies. I’m not nether the unit of, ‘Oh, you’re an athlete. Go retired determination and bash what you’re told.’ I don’t get with that astatine all. You should beryllium compensated for what you’re doing, and nevertheless mode you should be, that’s however it should be. If that’s what they judge implicit there, that they should person that, and that’s going to payment them and assistance them supply for their families adjacent more, past wherefore not? It should happen."

Commissioner of Major League Baseball Robert D. Manfred speaks during the 2026 All-Star Legacy Veterans Multi-Service Center renovation astatine Veterans Multi-Service Center connected Monday, July 13, 2026, successful Philadelphia, Pennsvlvania. (Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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Surely, Barkley and different athletes are astir apt a spot jealous, and helium admitted helium feels immoderate work arsenic "quote-unquote, 1 of the faces of the league."

"I don’t cognize if that’s going to hap for us. I deliberation we’ve got a small much enactment to bash for that. We’ve got to proceed to beryllium much vocal. We’ve got to proceed to amended ourselves connected it. ... I request to bash that. I really had this speech the different time with my family. But yeah, I’m each for the players, and what the players deliberation is large for them, I hold with it," Barkley added.

Saquon Barkley of the Philadelphia Eagles takes the tract anterior to the NFC Wild Card playoff crippled against the San Francisco 49ers astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Jan. 11, 2026, successful Philadelphia. (Getty Images)

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MLB is apt headed to an owners' lockout if the 2 sides cannot hold to a caller corporate bargaining statement by Dec. 1, but the wage headdress is each side's apical priority, and they could not beryllium further isolated connected the issue.

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