Saquon Barkley gets completely honest on life after football and the drastic choice he has to make
It’s go big or “go ghost” for Saquon Barkley.The Eagles star running back told The Post he’s weighing two drastically different futures for whenever he decides to hang up his jersey for good.Barkley is either looking for a high-profile job or completely fall off the radar in a quiet life post-football.“Being completely honest… whenever I do hang the cleats up, I’m in the middle of wanting to try my best to follow Michael Strahan’s path,” Barkley said of the former Super Bowl champion with the Giants while speaking on behalf of his partnership with C4 Energy.“He was like a big brother to me when I was in New York [2018-2023] and even still.”Strahan, a five-time Emmy winner and co-host of “Good Morning America,” transitioned to television in 2008 after his NFL retirement following 15 seasons with the Giants.
That year, the former All-Pro defensive end joined Fox as an analyst.“But I think the layout of how to do it, and how you handle yourself,” the 29-year-old Super Bowl champ said.“And I don’t wanna be a guy that’s just only talking about football.
I wanna be able to bring the game that I love to fans and talk about football — but I also would love to talk about current events, politics, every little thing.“I want to step outside the helmet.I want to be more than a football player.
And I feel like Michael Strahan has done that.And I would love to be able to, in another way do storytelling.
I wanna bring stories to life.I have a passion for history, especially black history.
We know that the Malcolm X, the Martin Luther Kings and stuff like that.But there’s so many other people [including Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.] that played a part in and had a role in how I became the person I am today.
So I would love to elaborate on that.”Barkley, who is mostly private about his life outside of football, also can envision a life far away from the spotlight with his family — fiancée Anna Congdon and their two kids, ...