Boom, it is official. The Eagles have signed a speed
demon to the roster.
Matter of fact, the guy who was invited to the
recent rookie mini camp and I guess he had a
good tryout.
Or maybe it's due to the fact that another receiver
decided to suddenly retire.
Whatever the case may be,
John Ross is officially on the Philadelphia Eagles on a
one year deal.
Now, who knows what this will mean,
right? Bring him into camp.
Yeah. I don't know if there's guarantees in this deal
or not,
but maybe he's just part of that competition brewing right
now for wide receiver three.
Who knows? But nonetheless, a guy trying to make an
attempt at a comeback and you have to salute him
for that.
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on a one year deal.
He's 28 years old and like I said,
you may remember him because the Eagles just tried him
out recently.
We talked about that, but they had Devonte Parker,
who now is retired. They had
Paris Campbell come in and you know right now he
seems to be the lead at wide receiver 3,
but maybe they're not too sure.
They go out, they draft Anaya Smith,
they draft Johnny Wilson. But at the end of the
day,
even though those guys have some hype,
they are late round picks.
They were late round picks for a reason.
They are rookies and you can't expect too much out
of them just yet unless they are diamonds in the
rough.
Now John Ross though was drafted in 2017.
He was the 9th overall pick.
He set all kinds of records coming into the combine
and unfortunately he disappointed in his NFL career.
As you can see, he never played a full season.
He was injured and injured and injured,
but you know he was a deep threat when he
was on the field when he was healthy.
4 years with the Bengals,
one with the Giants, and in his last year in
2021. So he hasn't played the last two years
and he actually did retire I think last year.
But when he did play with the New York Giants,
he had 10 games played and he had 11 catches
out of 20 targets and only
224 yards. But look at the average,
right, 20.4 yards per catch.
He was just simply a deep threat.
And if that's what the Eagles want to try to
experiment and use him for,
I'm not mad at all about that.
Not at all. Now let's go to this article put
up on
theeagles.com. They say Ross signed a one year contract.
Another step forward for Ross,
9th pick in the 2017 draft.
Up here it says that he had an invitation to
the Eagles rookie mini camp as a tryout,
knowing he had to be on point in everything he
did to attract interest from a team.
And apparently he got it done.
And here he is on the Eagles roster.
So shout out to John Ross
the five 11194. Ross is known for speed,
speed and more speed. He registered a then NFL Combine
record
4.22 seconds in the 40 yard dash,
but that was broken this year by first round pick
Xavier Worthy.
Ross caught 81 passes for 1150 yards and 17 touchdowns
in his final season at University of Washington and was
the 3rd wide receiver taken in the draft.
But like it says here,
injuries have limited his entire career.
And with the retirement of Devante Parker,
a roster spot open and the Eagles moved quickly to
add John Ross,
who looks to continue his comeback one step at a
time in Philly.
And it does say, I think somewhere here,
yeah, here it is. It was with the Kansas City
Chiefs.
He signed a future contract in
2023 and then informed the team he was retiring.
So, you know, it's been a bumpy Rd.
It's been an up and down Rd.
for John Ross. But you know,
you have A.J. Brown, Devante Smith,
this is probably the best situation to try to bring
him into.
See if he still has anything left in the tank.
We know at the end of the day,
he's not going to lose that speed.
He's not going to lose that downfield ability to just
break away from his man.
So look, maybe the Eagles throw him in here and
there,
right? Maybe he's a once in a while.
Hey, John Ross, go deep.
We got you. Jaylen Hurts,
beautiful ball right in the bread basket for a tuddy.
And maybe they just lose sight of him.
I don't know. Maybe he doesn't make the team at
all.
If I had to guess right now,
I think there's not too much of a good chance
he ends up on the opening day roster,
the 53. But I do think anything's possible.
And given the uncertainty at the position right now,
I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen,
right? If Paris Campbell shows up the training camp and
you know,
he's not in shape and he doesn't look that good
and maybe at OTA's he's not looking that good right
now.
Maybe they go, OK, let's go with John Ross.
Why not? Unless another veteran opens up somewhere else,
somebody gets cut, etcetera. So we'll just have to wait
and see how it plays out.
But at the end of the day,
I'm not going to count him out.
We'll see what he has left and what he can
do.
Give me your thoughts on this signing down below.
The Eagles bringing an absolute speed demon.
We'll see if he still has anything left on the
burners.
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Peace.