Saquon Barkley remains on track to set a new NFL rushing record as the Eagles face the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday at Linc.

Barkley, who topped LeSean McCoy’s Eagles single-season rushing record earlier this month, rushed for 150 yards during last week’s loss to the Commanders and is closing in on Eric Dickerson’s long-standing NFL rushing record set in 1984.

“I don’t think he’ll make it,” Dickerson said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times. “But if he breaks it, he breaks it. Do I want him to destroy it? Absolutely not.”

Here’s a look at Barkley’s stats and what he needs to do to surpass Dickerson’s rushing record with two games left in the season.

Barkley enters Sunday’s game with 1,838 rushing yards this season, leading the NFL. He is averaging 122.5 rushing yards per game, a pace that would put him at around 2,083 rushing yards this season.

He ran for 66 yards against the Cowboys in the Birds’ lopsided win last month in Dallas, where Philly benched their starters in the fourth quarter.

Barkley has already surpassed his career high of 1,312 rushing yards, which he set with the New York Giants in 2022. He also scored 13 touchdowns this year, a new career high, surpassing the 11 touchdowns he scored during his rookie season with the Giants in 2018.

The record belongs to Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson, who ran for 2,105 yards for the Los Angeles Rams in 1984 in his second season in the NFL. Dickerson passed for more than 100 yards in 12 of his 16 games this season, including two games in which he passed for more than 200 yards.

Over his 11-year career, Dickerson managed 13,259 yards, the ninth-most in NFL history. Former Cowboys star Emmitt Smith holds the NFL’s all-time rushing record with 18,355 yards.

Barkley became just the fourth player in NFL history to pass for over 1,800 yards and over 13 touchdowns while averaging over 5.5 yards per game in 15 games. The three other players are all Hall of Famers – Dickerson, Walter Payton in 1977 and OJ Simpson in 1975.

With two games remaining on the 17-game schedule, Barkley is 267 yards away from the record. He’ll need to average 134 yards per game over the final two weeks of the season to overtake Dickerson.

Luckily for him, the Birds’ remaining games are against teams with weak rushing defenses. The Cowboys are giving up about 136 yards per game on the ground, while the New York Giants, who the Eagles face in Week 18, have the second-worst rushing defense in the league and are allowing their opponents to rush for over 142 yards per game.

It remains to be seen whether the Eagles would even turn to Barkley if they had no chance of securing the NFC’s No. 1 seed in Week 18 and ended up treating the Giants’ game as a bye.

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In addition to setting the NFL’s single-season rushing record, Barkley had a chance to set a new NFL record for scrimmage yards in a season. But that seems almost unattainable after last week’s game in which he didn’t have a single reception.

Chris Johnson currently holds the NFL record with 2,509 scrimmage yards (rushing and passing), which he set in 2009 with the Tennessee Titans. Barkley enters Sunday with 2,114 total yards leading the NFL and would need to average about 198 yards per game over the next two weeks to break Johnson’s record.

Things aren’t going Barkley’s way. He has had just four receptions for 19 yards total in the last four games, and it has been more than a month since he has received more than 50 yards in a single game.

While he may not set a new NFL record, Barkley needs just 33 scrimmage yards on Sunday to surpass LeSean McCoy’s franchise record of 2,146 all-purpose yards set in 2013.