What is Alshon Jeffery’s legacy with these Philadelphia Eagles if it’s over?
By Hunter Doyle
Everything comes to an end, and Year 3 doesn’t share the same zeal.
The 2019-2020 season was expected to be one of redemption for Jeffery after that dropped pass closed the 2018-2019 run, but things went downhill. Philly fans gave him a standing ovation at a Philadelphia 76ers game. Everyone was behind him, but 2019 soured the relationship.
Alshon’s third year as an Eagle featured injuries that kept him off the field throughout the year. He would eventually suffer a non-contact ankle injury in Week 14 that put him on the shelf for good, but the damage was done long before that. He ended up playing in only ten games and put up 490 receiving yards to go along with four touchdowns on 43 catches.
You can argue that his numbers wouldn’t have been much different compared to 2017 and 2018 if he had played a full season, but that won’t make anyone feel better.
It just wasn’t the same all season. Carson and Alshon were often on different pages. Jeffery seemed to be unable to hide his disdain for what was going on during games. Then, “17” was the primary suspect of those anonymous quotes that were aimed at Carson Wentz’s play. Things got ugly
It also didn’t help Alshon’s case when after being named, the quotes stopped and Carson had more success with a lineup that consisted of practice squad members like Boston Scott, Joshua Perkins, Deontay Burnett, Robert Davis, and Greg Ward Jr. Then, there was the emergence of Dallas Goedert and Miles Sanders, who shined and stepped out of the shadows of Zach Ertz and Jordan Howard.
How should we view Jeffery’s time in Philly? It’s quite simple.