NFL Trade Machine: Nelson Agholor To San Francisco

The Philadelphia Eagles have overturned their roster so much in the past few months, and now Nelson Agholor may be next.

Latest to come around was their exchanging backup offensive lineman Dennis Kelly to the Tennessee Titans for wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham. On the surface it looks like a huge gain for Philly. Green-Beckham is a 6’5″ monster with deep speed who had a solid rookie year. Many scouts and experts still don’t believe he has the capacity to become a future star due to his personality question marks and suspect work ethic, it seems the Eagles are willing to find out.

A side effect of this move is the run of speculation it started over the roster security of second-year man Nelson Agholor. Everybody knows his situation. Though he’s a former 1st round pick, he was a clear addition favored by former head coach Chip Kelly and everything the Eagles have done the past few months were driven by an effort to erase his imprint on the roster. Agholor is one of the final big pieces left.

He doesn’t feel like the team might be trying to squeeze him out though.

"“I don’t look at it as a message, I look at it as an opportunity for us to become a better football team. They want the same thing I want, and that’s to win football games and to be a great football team.”He added: “I’m going to make myself useful on the football field, regardless. I come out here, I’m going to play hard, I’m going to have great speed, great effort, be detail-oriented, and make plays. At the end of the day, I’m going to be on this football team, and I’m going to help this team win football games.”"

Odds are Green-Beckham was added for depth and potential upside, but there is a chance Agholor may be available and there is an obvious team out there who might be willing to deal for him. The team that Chip Kelly now runs in the San Francisco 49ers.

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It’s no secret that team is hurting for help at wide receiver. At present their three best options are Torrey Smith, Quinton Patton and Bruce Ellington. Hardly what one would call a deep and prodigious group. Kelly might be very interested in reuniting with Nelson Agholor considering he spent such a high draft choice on him last year.

It would then become a matter of compensation. Odds are the Eagles won’t keep the price very high since they would clearly want him gone by making him available at all. Perhaps another player exchange or a mid to late round draft pick would do the job. Much of it may end up depending on how well Green-Beckham performs and whether Agholor can adjust to the new offense under head coach Doug Pederson.

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