The Times Herald (Norristown, PA)
Agholor wants to make difference
Third-year WR has new mentality in Seattle
PHILADELPHIA » The Eagles will enter CenturyLink Field in Seattle Sunday, Nelson Agholor included. He will be back, in so many ways.
It was just over a year ago, in that same stadium, when none of that was a given for the Eagles’ 2015 first-round draft choice. It was there, after a 2615 loss to the Seahawks, that Agholor was questioning his mental approach to the game. It was there, after he’d made no receptions, dropped a potential touchdown pass and committed a difference-making turnover, that he sat in his locker and wondered aloud about his career.
“I’ve got to get out of my own head,” he said at the time. “I am pressing too much. I am worried about too many things.”
He’s not worried about as much this time. Instead, the receiver is enjoying a revival season, one with six touchdowns, including two last week in a 31-3 victory over the Chicago Bears. A year later, he has become one of Carson Wentz’s most reliable options, no longer prone to dropping passes … or dropping his head in any self-analysis.
“I made a goal for myself in the offseason to just be better and to not be denied,” Agholor said Thursday after practice at the NovaCare Complex. “And I think it all changed when I told myself I would not be denied.”
Doug Pederson told Agholor something else after that Seattle game. He told him he’d be scratched the next week,