DeVonta Smith comes out of his shell with Philadelphia Eagles

I feel like it mostly goes to my teammates, just the way they’ve accepted me and how comfortable they made me feel.

“I was young going into Alabama.

He’s here to help our team.’ And I think that’s allowed him to kind of come out of his shell and be himself probably quicker than he thought he was going to be able to.

“I had a little insight to him just because I recruited him coming out of high school and had a chance to visit his town and where he’s from, and you know that background part of it, which is cool, and you knew what he was built with then.

“Everybody has their way of leading, but ultimately if anybody has a question about anything, we just say it out loud in the room, and whoever has the answer, they answer it.

I expect to get many more contracts coming, but ultimately it just comes down to me working.

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