{"id":1425,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1425","headline":"NFL made Saquon Barkley sell his Polymarket stake","dek":"League rules bar players from having financial interests in gambling or prediction-market companies, the Eagles running back told Front Office Sports.","body":"Saquon Barkley is out of the prediction-market business, whether he liked it or not. The Eagles running back told Front Office Sports he was forced to divest his equity stake in Polymarket because NFL rules prohibit players from investing in or endorsing gambling or prediction-market companies.\n\nA profile of Barkley last September revealed Polymarket as one of his startup investments. Sometime between then and this past summer, the league informed players that holding financial interests in prediction-market platforms was no longer allowed.\n\n\"I am not in that right now,\" Barkley said. \"I am not allowed to be in that.\"\n\nBarkley explained the NFL briefs players before each season on updated rules covering endorsements, investments, and other business dealings. Prediction markets like Polymarket have exploded in popularity as a gray-area alternative to traditional sports betting, but the league is treating them the same as any other gambling enterprise when it comes to player involvement. For Barkley, that meant walking away from a stake he had already built, no exceptions made for running backs with a knack for picking winners off the field.","published_at":"2026-10-28T21:48:43.212133+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Pro Football Talk","publisher":"NBC Sports","title":"NFL rules forced Saquon Barkley to sell his interest in Polymarket","url":"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nfl-rules-forced-saquon-barkley-to-sell-his-interest-in-polymarket"},{"outlet":"Front Office Sports","publisher":"Front Office Sports","title":"NFL Told Saquon Barkley to Divest Polymarket Stake","url":"https://frontofficesports.com/article/nfl-forced-saquon-barkley-to-divest-polymarket-investment/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NFL Told Saquon Barkley to Divest Polymarket Stake","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nfl-told-saquon-barkley-divest-142516892.html"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NFL rules forced Saquon Barkley to sell his interest in Polymarket","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nfl-rules-forced-saquon-barkley-174138439.html"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Eagles star Barkley says he was forced to divest equity stake in Polymarket","url":"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50309777/saquon-barkley-says-was-forced-divest-polymarket-stake"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Eagles running back Saquon Barkley says NFL told him to divest equity stake in Polymarket","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/eagles-running-back-saquon-barkley-204053682.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3716056/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1920x1080!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhdliveextra-a.akamaihd.net%2FHD%2Fimage_sports%2FNBCU_Sports_Group_-_nbcsports%2F740%2F611%2Fnbc_pft_eaglesbadoutlook_261027.jpg","credit":"Pro Football Talk","width":1920},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}