Biography
Saquon Barkley
Table of Contents
EARLY LIFE
Saquon Barkley was born on 9th February of 1997 in the New York city of the New York state. He was born with the named Saquon Rasul Quevis Barkley to Alibay Barkley and Tonya Johnson. His father and his uncle were a talented and professional boxer. His brother used to play baseball at George Washington High School and was a star during his university career. He also have2 sisters, namely Shaquona Barkley and Aliyah Barkley, and two brothers, namely Ali Barkley and Rashard Johnson. Barkley and his family moved to Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, where he joined Whitehall High School.
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| Full Name | Saquon Rasul Quevis Barkley |
| Date Of Birth | February 9, 1997 |
| Birth Place | The Bronx, New York, US |
| Parent(s) | Alibay Barkley Tonya Johnson |
| Profession | American Football Player |
| Girlfriend | Anna Congdon |
| Age | 23 years |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in |
| Children | 1 |
| Net Worth | US $30 million |
Barkley used to play football during his high school, and his idol was the fan of Curtis Martin, who was then running back of New York Jets. At the end of his sophomore years in high school, Berkley scored 63 touchdowns and made a rush for 3,645 yards, and in Senior years, Saquon Barkley finished the season with 31 touchdowns and 1,856 yards rush. After finishing high school, he attended Penn State University in Pennsylvania as a 4-star recruit.
COLLEGE CAREER
After joining Peen State in 2015, Barkley started playing as a starter in his freshman year. During his freshman year, he played overall three games and missed 2 of the seasons game due to injury. In the whole 2015 seasons, he scored seven touchdowns, and for 1,076 yards, he made 182 carries. For his performance in the first season, Saquon Barkley was highly praised and was entitled with BTN.com Freshman of the Year and was also gets the reward of second-team All-Big Ten.
During his sophomore year, he opened his first game against Kent State and won the match by 33-13 points, where Barkley made a touchdown and 105 yards rushing. The following Week against the Pitt and Minnesota, the game was not entirely successful with average performance. Finally, in the game against Maryland, Barkley made his first college career 200 yards a rushing play. He completed the game with a touchdown and made a carry for 202 yards. The following week, Saquon Barkley made his career-high record in 2017 rushing yard and two touchdowns with additional 70 receiving yards against the Purdue. They won the game by 62-24 points.
The following Week, Barkley scored the one touchdown and 167 rushing yard in the winning game against Iowa. They won the game by 41-14 points. For his season’s performance, Saquon Barkley was entitled with Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year award and additional of First Team All-Big Ten and Running Back of the Year award.
At the end of 2016, Berkley led the team to victory against Wisconsin in the 2016 Big Ten Championship Game. Saquon Barkley made one catch of opponent touchdown and completed 19 carries for 83 yards with a touchdown leading the team by 38-31 wins. In the 2017 Rose Bowl, the Penn State was defeated by USC, although the game was in win-win situations by 52-49 points. During his freshman and sophomore year, Barkley set the highest rushing yard record of 1,076 and 1,496 yards.
During his junior year, Barkley gets entitled to the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week during his first game against Akron. During the whole seasons, Saquon Barkley led the winning match against Iowa Hawkeyes, Indian Hoosiers, Ohio State, and Washington Huskies, ending the season with a continuous victory streak.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Barkley decided to participate in the 2018 NFL Draft at the end of the junior year of his university. He caught the attention of many highly professional teams and got high praise for his outstanding performance in the draft.
In 2018, Barkley’s professional career began after signing the contract worth 31.2 million dollars with New York Giants for four years. Barkley made his NFL debut in 2008 against Jacksonville Jaguars. He scored a touchdown and 106 rushing yards for the first losing game. Again, Saquon Barkley had his second losing game against Dallas Cowboys, but Barkley set the record for the highest catch in a single game.
Barkley had his first winning game in the 3rd Week of the season against Houston Texans. After that, in the following two losing games against New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers, he set the record of a touchdown with 44 rushings and 56 receiving yards and 100 scrimmage yards and four receptions, 48 rushing yards, and two touchdowns.
As of 2020, he is currently playing for the New York-based professional football team, New York Giants.
PERSONAL LIFE
Barkley is in his early twenties, and he has been dating 22 years old Anna Congdon since 2017. They had a child together named Jada Claire Barkley in 2018. Barkley is actively present in both Instagram and Twitter, and he has over 2.2 million followers on Instagram and 415 thousand followers on tweeter. He calls himself a proud father of his baby girl.
Apart from football, Barkley also had an interest in other sports like track and field and basketball. During his senior year, he earned gold medals for the 100-meter dash and a second position in the long jump. He also set the record for his high in high jump and shotput. After the victory against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Barkley achieved the NFC Offensive Player of the Week. At the end of the 2018 seasons, Barkley gets the honor of several awards.
At the NFL Top 100 Players of 2019, NFL ranks Barkley in the 16th position. After his performance against Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and ten games of that season, Barkley was again entitled with NFC Offensive Player of the Week. Saquon Barkley also set the team’s history for having 1000 rushing yards record. In 2020, the Giants loosed against Pittsburgh Steelers on the first Week by 26-16 points with the poor performance. In the following week, the team was once again defeated by Chicago Bears by 17-13 points and was not able to play the game further due to injury.
PHYSICAL STATISTICS
Barkley is around 5ft and 11 inches tall, and his weight is 106kg, a perfect physics for a football player.
NET WORTH
Forbes magazine has ranked Saquon Barkley among the world’s 100 highest-paid athletes. Barkley signed the contract of 31.2 million dollars with the New York Giants in 2018. Thus, Saquon Barkley had the guaranteed payment of 20.76 million dollars was for signing bonuses and 15 million dollars for winning compensation in each game. The contract pays around 8 million dollars yearly. Since his contract hasn’t been ended yet as of 2020, we can assume that his total net worth is estimated to be around 30 million dollars.
