Why it’s so darn easy to root for John Ross with the Eagles originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
The day John Ross retired in the summer of 2023, he knew instantly he made a mistake.
Ross never wanted to leave football.
“Literally the day I retired,” Ross said, “I knew it was a mistake.”
But the speedy wide receiver found himself in a bad place mentally after years of injuries and a failure to live up to extremely high expectations for a No. 9 overall pick in the draft. His career hadn’t gone to plan and he was at his end, so he walked away.
That’s when his son Kyrie saved him.
“When you get to a point where you feel like you’re at your lowest, you get to see everything for what it is,” Ross said after the Eagles’ OTA practice on Thursday. “And then you get to kind of look around and see your surroundings. I can tell you that my environment wasn’t great. So you gotta kind of hone [in] and pay attention to what matters to you and what’s real.
“I got to see my son every single day and I think that changed my life. It just let me know that I don’t have anything to worry about. I’m blessed and I have everything in front of me. I’m young, I feel young, I haven’t played that much football. I just got to a point where I was sitting there thinking, every single day, ‘How do I change my mentality? How do I change my mindset?’ I got this little boy inspiring me every day through him playing football, him learning, me teaching him. I used to feel bad because I would get on him so much and I would be like, ‘I should be getting on myself’ because I can see me in him. I can honestly say he pulled me out of a bad place. Again, I’m very thankful.”
Ross, 28, came to Philadelphia on a tryout last month at rookie camp and must have impressed the Eagles because he was signed to the 90-man roster last week after DeVante Parker retired.
If we’re being realistic, chances aren’t great that Ross will be a significant contributor for…
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Publish date : 2024-05-31 11:00:00
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