Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley will celebrate his 28th birthday on Sunday playing in Super Bowl LIX after a dominant first season in Philadelphia. His former Giants teammates, who finished the year 3-14, will be watching. Among them is linebacker Kayvon Thibodeaux, who is spending time in New Orleans leading up to the game.

Saquon Barkley is arguably the brightest star of the Philadelphia Eagles' latest Super Bowl appearance. And yet the big-time running back almost didn't play for the Eagles at all. Asked about his exit from the New York Giants during Monday's Opening Night at the Caesars Superdome,

Saquon Barkley's high school teachers and coaches say he worked hard and did things the right way as a student-athlete.