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Agholor enjoying a breakout season

Eagle putting together a nice Year 3

If you've watched the Eagles play any this year, including last night, you have to be impressed by Nelson Agholor. He looked like a bust in his first two seasons in the league, but here he is now having a breakout 3rd season.

It's a difficult transition from college to the NFL. Sometimes injuries are a factor, or poor quarterbacking, or a coaching staff and offensive system that isn't a good fit. Whatever the case, Agholor is one of six wide receivers drafted in the first round back in 2015, and he's having as good a third season as any of them -- better than most.

From 2005 through 2015, there were 42 wide receivers drafted in the third round. Project all of those 2015 first-rounders' numbers so far this year over a full season, and Agholor -- and Dolphin DeVante Parker -- are right up there with the best of the first-rounders. The other members of that draft class are either clearly looking like flops (Perriman, White, Dorsett) or disappointing after a strong first two seasons (Cooper).

So sometimes it takes a while, but Agholor looks pretty good right now.

Third-year numbers from first-round wideouts over the past decade (Agholor and other 2015 first-rounders, in bold, are projected over full season) are shown below.

FIRST-ROUND WRS, 3RD-YEAR NUMBERS (2005-2015)
YearPickPlayerNoYdsTD
201327DeAndre Hopkins, Hou.111152111
201022Demaryius Thomas, Den.94143410
20114A.J. Green, Cin.98142611
201024Dez Bryant, Dall.92138212
201412Odell Beckham Jr., NYG101136710
20147Mike Evans, T.B.96132112
20053Braylon Edwards, Clev.80128916
200527Roddy White, Atl.8312026
200929Hakeem Nicks, NYG7611927
201420Brandin Cooks, N.O.7811738
20072Calvin Johnson, Det.679845
20097Darrius Heyward-Bey, Oak.649754
200922Percy Harvin, Minn.879679
201514DeVante Parker, Mia.769444
201428Kelvin Benjamin, Car.639417
200910Michael Crabtree, S.F.728744
200919Jeremy Maclin, Phil.638595
201520Nelson Agholor, Phil.5385611
201213Michael Floyd, Ariz.478416
200625Santonio Holmes, Pitt.558215
200727Robert Meachem, N.O.457229
201220Kendall Wright, Tenn.577156
200723Dwayne Bowe, K.C.475894
20116Julio Jones, Atl.415802
200522Mark Clayton, Balt.485310
20138Tavon Austin, St.L.5247310
20079Ted Ginn Jr., Mia.384541
20144Sammy Watkins, Buff.284302
20154Amari Cooper, Oak.423783
200521Matt Jones, Jac.243174
200930Kenny Britt, Tenn.172893
201529Phillip Dorsett, Ind.132720
20057Troy Williamson, Minn.182401
201230A.J. Jenkins, S.F.9930
200510Mike Williams, Det.7900
201526Breshad Perriman, Balt.13830
200730Craig Davis, S.D.6520
201126Jon Baldwin, K.C.3280
20157Kevin White, Chi.6190
201329Cordarrelle Patterson, Minn.2102
20125Justin Blackmon, Jac.000
200732Anthony Gonzalez, Ind.000

--Andy Richardson

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