Barkley stars on debut as Eagles beat Packers in Brazil

NFL 2024 regular season

Dates: 5 September 2024 - 5 January 2025

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Saquon Barkley scored 3 touchdowns connected his debut arsenic nan Philadelphia Eagles hit nan Green Bay Packers 34-29 successful nan first NFL crippled played successful South America.

Barkley ran 24 times for 109 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 2 passes for 23 yards and a touchdown astatine nan Arena Corinthians successful Sao Paulo.

The 27-year-old, who joined from nan New York Giants successful nan off-season, is conscionable nan 2nd subordinate to people 3 touchdowns connected their Eagles debut, aft Terrell Owens successful 2004.

"It was really important for maine conscionable to get going," Barkley said. "I conscionable needed that first tackle to get maine going again."

Friday's brushwood was nan first of 5 NFL regular-season games to beryllium played extracurricular nan United States this season, pinch 3 games successful London successful October and 1 successful Munich successful November.

Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts completed 20 of 34 passes for 278 yards pinch 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions successful a thriller that featured 7 lead changes.

His Packers counterpart Jordan Love completed half of his 34 passes for 260 yards pinch 2 touchdown passes and an interception earlier being forced disconnected pinch an ankle wounded precocious on.

"It was a bully game, backmost and forth," said Eagles prima wide receiver AJ Brown, who had 5 catches for 119 yards and 1 touchdown.

"A batch of things were going to spell incorrect because it's nan first crippled but we made adjustments and it conscionable came down to making plays."