Can a one-time top-10 draft pick wide receiver help while DeVonta Smith and A.J. Brown are out?

Can a one-time top-10 draft pick wide receiver help while DeVonta Smith and A.J. Brown are out? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

Story of his career.

Whenever things start going well, disaster strikes.

Happened again this summer to John Ross.

The one-time 1st-round pick spent the first few weeks of training camp knocking off the rust. But as camp went along, he started showing up. Only to suffer a concussion in the preseason game against the Patriots in Foxboro.

“I was starting to come along,” he said. “I was feeling good. I had a really good joint practice vs. New England. Things were looking up and then the concussion happened.”

Ross caught a nine-yard pass from Kenny Pickett and had kick returns of 32 and 36 yards that night at Gilette Stadium before suffering a concussion early in the third quarter. That pretty much sealed his fate, and he was released with final cuts two weeks later.

“Just a little setback,” he said at his locker Wednesday. “Those things happen all the time. I mean at this point in my career I look at it as just another hurdle. It’s tough to keep on getting down on myself about it. It’s just a lot of stuff that I can’t control throughout my whole career. A lot of injuries. Freak things happen. That was my first time in-game having a concussion, something that I obviously can’t control.”

Ross, the ninth pick in the 2017 draft, hasn’t played since Dec. 12, 2021, for the Giants against the Chargers. He caught a seven-yard pass from Mike Glennon and hasn’t been on an NFL field since.

But he can’t give up. Even though he’s been tempted.

“It’s kind of hard for me to sit back and just wait for multiple weeks,” he said. “It’s hard to stay optimistic. Because you never know. This is a tough league and a tough business.

“To get a call right away (after he was released), it was kind of unrealistic. I knew the situation and I knew the circumstances, so I wasn’t really down about it. This is one of those deals where I…

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Publish date : 2024-09-27 13:15:30

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