Saquon Barkley is having perhaps the best inaugural season of any Philadelphia athlete in the city’s history.
He almost set the single-season rushing record, instead authoring a 2,000+ yard season. He’s had two insane postseason games in beating the Packers and Rams and is one step away from reaching the Super Bowl after years of toiling away in the depths of the New York Giants’ abyss.
There have been hundreds of star athletes who began their careers elsewhere and came to Philadelphia and thrived (there are more who came to Philadelphia and bombed, but that’s a different article altogether), and with the Phillies, there are dozens of examples of both.