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Saquon Barkley<\/a> knows exactly what it’s like to be stiffed in a salary cap sport.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> running back rushed for 2,000 yards and won an Offensive Player of the Year Award just one season after the New York Giants decided not to pay him.<\/p>\n

Running backs were getting the short end of the stick before a recent resurgence, as general managers felt that the position was hardly that valuable. The best are still getting paid, but there was a lot of recycling throughout the league.<\/p>\n

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In any case, lots of difficult decisions are made in football, whereas baseball remains a non–<\/span>capped sport, resulting in $700 million contracts and no cap casualties.<\/p>\n

However, MLB<\/a> owners have officially proposed a salary cap for the first time since 1994 – and we all know how that turned out. The players have remained steadfast in saying that a salary cap is not negotiable, and Barkley is supporting them.<\/p>\n

“Whatever is best for the players, I\u2019m with that. Whatever is for the players,” Barkley told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

“I get how the owners have the power and stuff like this, but we go out there and sacrifice our bodies. Athletes go out there and sacrifice their bodies. I\u2019m not under the pressure of, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re an athlete. Go out there and do what you\u2019re told.\u2019 I don\u2019t get with that at all. You should be compensated for what you\u2019re doing, and however way you should be, that\u2019s how it should be. If that\u2019s what they believe over there, that they should have that, and that\u2019s going to benefit them and help them provide for their families even more, then why not? It should happen.”<\/p>\n

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Surely, Barkley and other athletes are probably a bit jealous, and he admitted he feels some responsibility as “quote-unquote, one of the faces of the league.”<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s going to happen for us. I think we\u2019ve got a little more work to do for that. We\u2019ve got to continue to be more vocal. We\u2019ve got to continue to educate ourselves on it. … I need to do that. I actually had this conversation the other day with my family. But yeah, I\u2019m all for the players, and what the players think is great for them, I agree with it,” Barkley added.<\/p>\n

MLB is likely headed to an owners’ lockout if the two sides cannot agree to a new collective bargaining agreement by Dec. 1, but the salary cap is each side’s top priority, and they could not be further apart on the issue.<\/p>\n

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