Philadelphia Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley announced Monday that he declined President Donald Trump’s invitation to serve on the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Trump announced the revitalized council last Thursday as part of an executive order that also reinstated the Presidential Fitness Test.

Saquon Barkley has declined an invitation to join President Donald Trump's council on sports, fitness, and nutrition.

He’s running and catching. He’s also talking trash, which is a departure from what we saw from Barkley last summer, his first in an Eagles uniform after six mostly losing seasons with the Giants.“I was kinda the newbie last year,