Philadelphia Eagles debate table: Nelson Agholor’s career ends after 2019
By now you should have seen enough. It’s over for Nelson Agholor at the conclusion of the Philadelphia Eagles 2019 season.
Once upon a time, actually it was a little over three years ago in 2016, Inside The Iggles published a story on Nelson Agholor. The basis of that one was it was the belief of site expert Geoffrey Knox that the Philadelphia Eagles should count drafting Agholor in the first round of the 2015’s NFL draft as a loss and move on.
That story was met with all kinds of venom, but in the end, it was accurate. Agholor would go on to stink it up in 2016. He couldn’t catch. He couldn’t run routes. He couldn’t even line up correctly.
The low point of his sophomore season came in Week 11 on the road versus the Seattle Seahawks where Agholor not only failed to register a single catch on three targets, his failure to line up correctly resulted in an illegal formation penalty that cost the Eagles a long touchdown catch and run by Zach Ertz.
He rebounded in 2017 and was a key piece of the Eagles’ title run that season, but that was the exception to the rule and not the rule itself. Agholor is awful. The struggles we saw in 2016 have resurfaced. The Eagles missed their chance to rid themselves of him at the beginning of the season where he was rumored to be trade bait, and what’s unfortunate about all of that is this.
They were never going to get more for him than they would have gotten for him at the beginning of this season. Now, they’re stuck.
They’re not going to re-sign him. They surely can’t trade him, and they would be fools to extend him after this season. Did you see that pathetic attempt at catching what would have been a sure touchdown in Week 7? This was after his drop of a sure touchdown in Week 2. Carson Wentz was quoted as saying ‘When I threw it, I thought we had a touchdown’.
Next. Rex Ryan goes off on Doug Pederson. dark
Agholor’s lack of effort has Philly fans incensed about their $9 million wide receiver. Ladies and gentlemen, it can be said with the utmost confidence that Agholor’s career in Philly won’t stretch past 2019, but here’s something else to ponder. What other NFL team is going to sign him with the tape he’s putting together? We may be watching his final nine games in the NFL.