The Morning Call

Who won the Saquon Challenge?

- By Joby Fawcett

CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. — Casey Knott, while scrolling through Instagram, came across a post from Saquon Barkley about a challenge the New York Giants star running back posed to fans. He found it intriguing.

An NFL fan and junior receiver for Abington Heights High School in Clarks Summit, Knott gathered three of his friends and teammates, Griffin McGinley, Connor Dempsey and Will Stevens. They accepted.

They submitted their video to the NFL and came away as the overall winner. The group will spend the day at New York Giants camp and will meet Barkley as part of their prize.

“I sent it to my friends and they thought it would be cool,” Knott said. “Barkley is one of the most famous players now and we thought it would be great to meet him, so we entered and won.

“That is going to be cool, because I think we get to work out with the whole team and with him. ”

In May, Barkley’s “Quad Squad Quad Challenge” was part of the NFL’s “Experience­s of a Lifetime” campaign designed to celebrate the league’s 100th season, according to the New York Giants website.

Fans entered the contest by submitting videos completing Barkley’s challenge, using #NFL100Cont­est.

The challenge included first, the bottle flip challenge, then the planking challenge, the flossing challenge and the mannequin challenge.

Barkley posted a challenge video showing the requiremen­ts for contestant­s to get the training session with him.

Knott, McGinley, Dempsey and Stevens not only completed the challenge, they got creative.

Using the Rocky movie theme song as the backdrop, the group’s film showed the Bottle Flip being completed by Knott in a parking lot, then the camera pans to the Penn Paper tower with a Dunder Mufflin sign appearing which referenced the hit NBC comedy “The Office.”

Then, McGinley performed the Planking challenge on the top of the fence that surrounds the Abington Heights athletic fields.

Stevens executed the Flossing challenge, which is a popular dance where you “start by standing with your feet shoulder-width apart and your hands at your sides in fists. Next, swing your arms out to one side, and then swing them in the opposite direction so one arm is behind your body and the other is in front.”

Dempsey stood motionless in the Mannequin challenge imitating the pose of the pirate statue at Cooper’s Seafood Restaurant in Scranton.

It was a winner.

With the win, the team will visit the New York Giants facility, watch a practice and meet Barkley on Aug. 25.

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