Jalen Alexander Hurts is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He played college football at Oklahoma and Alabama. He was drafted by the Eagles in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft. He is the first player in Alabama history to pass for 300 yards and rush for 100 yards in the same game.
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Jalen Alexander Hurts is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He played college football at Oklahoma and Alabama. He was drafted by the Eagles in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft. Hurts attended Channelview High School in Channelview, Texas. As a senior, he passed for 2,384 yards with 26 touchdown passes and rushed for 1,391 yards and 25 touchdowns. He is the first player in Alabama history to pass for 300 yards and rush for 100 yards in the same game and the first quarterback to rush for 120 yards or more in multiple games. In 2017, Hurts led the Tide to a 13–1 season, giving them a playoff spot as a #4 seed, where they played Clemson in the 2018 Sugar Bowl. In 2018, he was benched at halftime of the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship for true freshman Tua Tagovailoa.
He won his first National Championship as the Crimson Tide defeated the Georgia Bulldogs by 26–23 in overtime. He had 70 passing yards and eight rushing touchdowns in the 51–14 victory in the National Championship. In the season opener against Louisville, Tagoviloa was officially named the starter and Hurts came into the game in a rotation. He passed for 227 yards and two passing touchdowns to go along with 8 rushing touchdowns and one interception. He also rushed for 954 yards and 13 touchdowns, breaking the school single season record for rushing yards by a quarterback, surpassing Steadman Shealy’s previous record of 791 yards. He finished the 2016 season with 36 overall touchdowns breaking Blake Sims’ previous record for touchdowns in a single season for the Crimson Crimson Tide with a total of 35 which he set in 2014.
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