The NFL immediately forced Saquon Barkley to get drug-tested after the game in which he pulled a backward hurdle and possibly the greatest hurdle in the history of the game. Fans found it amusing but they were also not super surprised that he was tested after a play like that because it literally looked humanly impossible to pull something like that off.
NFL Fans React To Sauon Barkley Drug Test
Barkley’s hurdle was named the play of the week, and should certainly be up for play of the year. The play was so insane that he got drug-tested for it right after the game.
Apparently, the NFL was so intrigued by Barkley’s feat of athleticism that they drug tested him after the win over the Jaguars. Appearing on Air It Out, Barkley bluntly said “I got drug tested right after the game.” He jokingly added “I’m not trying to do that again” because of how difficult and dangerous the move was.
It was certainly one of the most spectacular moves we’ve seen from the NFL, possibly since Jerome Simpson’s legendary somersault over a player and sticking the landing into the endzone.
That said, it wasn’t exactly a game-deciding play for the Eagles. It sure as heck helped them in a surprisingly close 28-23 win, but not the deciding factor in their win.
Here is the craziest play of the season so far:
SAQUON BARKLEY WITH A BACKWARDS HURDLE.
🤯🤯🤯 @saquon ONE OF ONE. NEVER SEEN THIS BEFOREpic.twitter.com/RXFS76Y55H
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) November 3, 2024
Saquon admitted to being drug tested right after the game was over.
Fans found this whole situation quite funny, and many of them agreed that he should be tested considering how impossible that play is to make:
“Pull off a highlight-reel play, get a ‘random’ drug test. Saquon stays breaking ankles and expectations,” one user remarked.
“Don’t blame them at all,” another joked.
“Tbf, the double-spin reverse-jump had only been done on PCP before,” joked a third.
“This made me think: the league forces these dudes to do drills that exhibit explosiveness, speed, agility, and jumping ability. So we testing them for PEDs when they do the (expletive) in an actual game?” a fourth asked, confused.
Potentially, they were testing him not only for the insane play but also because he is having the best season of his career by far so perhaps the NFL was testing him for the whole season’s performance.
There are other reasons that he may be having the best season as this is the best offensive line he has ever had and the best offense as a whole.
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