Unfortunately for the Eagles during their failed Super Bowl defense in 2025, the main challenge proved to be finding some consistency on offense.
Philly was out of sorts for much of the season, finishing 19th in scoring and 24th in yards. Although the rushing attack was moderately more effective than the passing game (18th vs. 23rd), Barkley experienced a massive dropoff from his 2024 Offensive Player of the Year campaign in which he eclipsed 2,000 rushing yards and averaged 5.8 yards per carry.
Barkley finished with 1,140 rushing yards at 4.1 yards per carry, with his 71.3 rushing yards per game down from a league-leading 125.3 the year before. He had three 100-yard rushing games compared to 11 in ’24.
“At the end of the day, we just weren’t consistent enough throughout the games,” he said. “It’s something we have to challenge ourselves to get ready for next year. We made a lot of changes offensively with the coaching staff, so excited to get in the building and learn something new and just go out on the field and put last year in the past. It’s really hard to come back. You think it’s easy and you have all the skills and you know what it takes to get there, but you just don’t have to get there? work like that, every team is building themselves and get ready to perform and compete for the Super Bowl, and we have to do the same thing.”
The downside to the latest iteration of the Eagles, who can’t turn around like they had the year before, can turn pro: Every season starts over, and Barkley is confident the next Philly group can turn it around.
In pursuit of such a goal, Philadelphia hired Mannion, a rising coach and former Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach, as offensive coordinator. After parting ways with offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland, the Eagles also hired Chris Kuper from the Minnesota Vikings to be the club’s new OL coach as part of a revamped coaching staff.
Both will work closely with Barkley to rebound.
As for the star running back, they have already delivered a refresher.
“From everything that was said, very creative, very smart,” Barkley said of the new coaches and anticipated changes on offense. “All the guys that we recruited are super smart and competitive. They want to be great and they’re excited about the talent that we have. I think we buy into everything that’s new and continue to have our standard and everything that we do at a high level, I feel like what we did last year will be in the past. You’ve got to learn from it and I think we’ll learn from it because we have the guys to learn from it. guys that are ready to learn from it.”