For Jalen Hurts, this is all routine. The Eagles QB knew he’d get here—MVP candidate for a Super Bowl favorite—just as surely as he knew no one else believed it
At this point, it’s two days before Hurts and the Eagles will play the Bears in Chicago. Win and Philadelphia will move closer to locking up the NFC’s No. 1 seed. Everything—his fade, his season, his career—is going exactly as planned. At least for another 48 hours.
Hurts doesn’t dodge uncomfortable questions. He pushes back. He clarifies. The storage of the slights against him isn’t personal, he says. He has forgiven but will never forget. He welcomes dissenting opinions, as long as critics/skeptics/nonbelievers “stand on” them later. He mentions a favorite phrase to explain all this:, meaning they don’t matter, not really, not compared to the plan.“I carry those scars on me everywhere I go,” Hurts says. “I began to find the thrill in it.
When Eagles executives dispatched Rath to Alabama’s campus before the 2020 draft, one story stood out above all. On the morning after Nick Saban benched Hurts for Tua Tagovailoa at halftime of the national championship game in early ’18, the quarterback showed up at the Crimson Tide’s weight room for a scheduled lift. His job might have changed in an acutely public and uncomfortable way. But rather than sulk or sleep in, Hurts showed up, only to notice freshmen screwing around. He gathered them.
Senior didn’t tolerate any nonsense on the field. He expected the boys to listen and never talk back; to work, even harder than their teammates. The combination, he hoped, would lead to continuous improvement. “Because the one thing I understand as a coach is there’s a bunch of kids that are more advanced, literally,” he says. “But it’s not like they just keep getting better and better and better and better throughout the rest of their lives.”.
Still, the narratives Hurts hates continued taking shape. He was a running quarterback who would never be an elite thrower of footballs … he threw to a bevy of future NFL stars … he moved, not slowly but also not quickly enough, through his progressions … he didn’t project as an NFL star. Never mind that factors like age, statistics and track record dismissed many of those misgivings outright.
Whether Sweat, Tevin Campbell, K-Ci & JoJo; or earlier musicians like Al Green, The Isley Brothers or Frankie Beverly; soulful R&B forms the soundtrack of Hurts’s routines. This sentiment also applies to his existence, since they’re really the same thing. The genre preference comes from his parents, especially his mother, Pamela, an educator who tuned the family radio whenever possible to old-school Majic 102.1.
Still, Hurts’s Eagles career began in the same place his Alabama tenure ended: as a backup, now to Carson Wentz. Hurts displayed mastery of the offense in spot duty, the kind born from bonds strengthened and that sunrise consistency. He started Philly’s last four games. But whether inactive in Week 1 or scuttling over the final month, the blank expression remained. “He’s always been naturally stoic,” his older brother says. “It’s frustrating … you never know what he’s thinking.
As those relationships grew, Hurts began joining the Tuesday- and Friday-morning game-plan meetings for Eagles offensive coaches. Midway through 2021, he started to suggest plays. Initially he didn’t want to overstep. But as he played more—and played better, upping his completion percentage, passing yards and every advanced statistic imaginable—his comfort level heightened. He attributes all gains to an authenticity, theHurts is ready to wrap on that Friday in December.
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