Tonya Johnson didn’t need her wildest imagination to envision this kind of comeback season from her son, Saquon Barkley.
“I believe everybody and anybody can come back from something,” Tonya told The Post. “It wasn’t life-threatening. You have some people who have stuff that’s life-threatening — ‘OK you have six to seven months to live,’ or ‘you’re gonna live.’ And sometimes even people who’ll be given that type of diagnosis, sometimes they surpass what the doctors told them.
This is what she told him: “I told him everything will be all right. No matter what, you can always get back up. Never forget that.”She will hug her son before each home game. She remembers when Saquon considered quitting football at 11 or 12 because of politics. All these years later, he is a driven father of two.
“He brings these kids to each game, they come with a chaperone, they go on the field, they get to see him before the game and then after the game,” Tonya said. “The individual has their own story to tell. That just touches his heart as well as mine ’cause I’m there. It keeps motivating him more.”“We couldn’t get into the shelter system,” Tonya said. “It was like mother and children, but the fathers weren’t allowed to go. Saquon and his sister went with a friend of mine in Bethlehem [Pa.].
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