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The last question I had for Jalen Hurts elicited the shortest, and maybe most interesting, answer he’d give me. For a few minutes, after the Eagles’ joint practice with the Colts, the quarterback and I had talked about his progress, his background, and where he and Philadelphia are headed, coming off an NFC championship and Super Bowl loss in 2022.
And in discussing how far he’s come already, I said that he had to have hated—back when he was at Alabama, and even Oklahoma, and even after winning a national title and making it to New York as a Heisman finalist—people pigeonholing him as a “running quarterback.”
