Execs, coaches, scouts rank NFL’s top 10 running backs for 2025 - ESPN
1. Saquon Barkley, Philadelphia Eagles. Highest ranking: 1 | Lowest ranking: 2. Age: 28 | Last year’s ranking: 4. Barkley got greedy in 2024. He clearly wanted every first-place vote in our 2025 poll. And he got all but one of them. Barkley’s Super Bowl-inspired run in 2024 harkens back to then-New York Giants GM Dave Gettleman taking serious heat for selecting a running back with the second overall pick despite plenty of good quarterbacks available in the 2018 draft. Barkley was just that good.
Eagles News: NFL insider poll ranks Saquon Barkley as the league’s best running back
