The early reviews weren’t very positive for rookie wide receiver Shelton Gibson. A fifth-round draft pick in April who left West Virginia after his junior season, Gibson struggled to catch the football with consistency in the Eagles’ Organized Team Activities and then through the summer in Training Camp and in the preseason.
Everyone saw it. Gibson wasn’t immune, either. He knew. And it got to him. He pressed. He worried. And he wondered if he would be around for the regular season.
“It was all in my head. I came in here and I felt like I was a baby learning to walk.