Saquon Barkley tackling streaming maze as NFL keeps growing worldwide: 'I'm all about eyes'

Saquon Barkley knows that helium is "quote unquote, 1 of the faces" of the National Football League. It is not an casual rubric to hold, but being a No. 2 wide prime turned 2,000-yard rusher, Offensive Player of the Year and Super Bowl victor volition bash that to you.

Barkley's precise archetypal crippled arsenic a Philadelphia Eagle was played successful Brazil, and this year, the squad volition question to London successful Week 5 to instrumentality connected the Jacksonville Jaguars.

But arsenic the NFL continues to turn its assemblage and thigh the field, Barkley is "all astir eyes."

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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)

"It’s truthful important that we are traveling crossed the state to play the game. The much eyes you tin get connected it, the amended it’s going to be," Barkley told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.

"The much radical are going to privation to turn up and play football, privation to beryllium involved. It’s truly benignant of brainsick that shot is astir apt the biggest sport, and we truly haven’t adjacent scratched the aboveground yet, to beryllium wholly honest. There’s truthful galore much territories that we conscionable instrumentality over, and I deliberation the NFL is doing a truly bully occupation of that.

"I’m a instrumentality of getting arsenic galore eyeballs arsenic we tin successful the game, assistance increasing the game. Anytime I tin get an accidental to play successful beforehand of idiosyncratic that’s ne'er got to ticker the game, I privation to effort to marque it memorable and person an interaction connected them … So close now, I’m each astir eyes, eyes, eyes connected the game, and let’s turn this crippled arsenic large arsenic we can, and let’s person an interaction connected arsenic galore radical arsenic we can."

That's wherefore Barkley has joined forces with DIRECTV up of his ninth NFL season. As portion of the campaign, Barkley recorded a spot that turned his iconic hurdle into a humorous metaphor for the obstacles shot fans present leap done conscionable to find a game. It shows wherefore Barkley wants diehard fans to support watching games, situation we say, the old-fashioned way.

Philadelphia Eagles' Saquon Barkley celebrates aft scoring a touchdown successful the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Dallas Cowboys Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, successful Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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"It’s going to beryllium brainsick successful 10 to 15 years, the mode you’re going to beryllium capable to ticker shot games," Barkley said of today's streaming-service takeover.

"It’s benignant of similar what I grew up on, and present to beryllium capable to person the accidental to enactment with them, and to beryllium capable to not lone bring it successful the NFL level, but besides successful the collegiate level wherever the crippled continues to turn and however overmuch eyes are continuing to get connected this shot game, I deliberation it’s the lone way. I deliberation it’s the close mode to bash it, and for maine to beryllium capable to person the accidental to enactment with DIRECTV, idiosyncratic I’ve been a instrumentality of for a precise agelong clip and beryllium capable to sprout a spot with them, it was awesome."

Barkley has accomplished conscionable astir everything a shot subordinate could imagination of. He tin discontinue close present and proceed the play grind (he claims Philly's apical 5 courses trump New Jersey's apical five, though Barkley and this writer obliged that Pine Valley is simply a Philadelphia course). But arsenic to wherefore he's inactive grinding, his reply is simple.

"I emotion it," helium said.

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)

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"It’s thing I’m precise passionate about. My lad SJ, he’s already passionate astir football. I was astir the aforesaid age, 2 oregon three, wherever I said this is thing that I privation to do, and I’m surviving my dream. I’m surviving the imagination that I ever wanted to live. So, I’m having amusive with it, and arsenic agelong arsenic God keeps maine steadfast and they support giving maine contracts and opportunities, arsenic agelong arsenic they privation to support maine successful this league, I’ll effort to play arsenic agelong arsenic I can....

"Whether it’s a year, whether it’s 5 years, there’s going to beryllium a clip wherever I’m like, 'Damn, I privation I could spell backmost into that locker country and conscionable walk 1 much time with the boys, walk 1 much time successful that value room, walk 1 much time moving retired that tunnel.' It’s going to beryllium a mess. So, I effort to bask it close now."

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