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Murphy: Agholor a victim of unrealistic expectations

ONCE UPON A TIME, the Eagles drafted a player whom the odds suggested would never achieve stardom. His 40-yard time ranked outside the top 10 of his position group, as did his bench press. His stature was average or worse across the board: height (29th percentile), weight (42nd percentile), hand size (37th percentile), arm length (54th percentile). To carve out a future as even a serviceable player, he would have to show that he could put himself in position to make plays in the face of resistance far stiffer than any he'd faced in college. He would also have to convert a high percentage of those makable plays, for he was not physically equipped to make the transcendent ones.