Jalen Hurts has used his elite vision to bamboozle defences all season, yet it is his social conscious and awareness off the field that is making the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback a legend ahead of Super Bowl LVII.
Philadelphia fans are renowned for being passionate supporters of their teams, but they haven’t had many of their own truly superstar quarterbacks to get behind. In fact, Hurts is the first quarterback in Eagles history to take the team to the playoffs in each of his first two seasons as a full-time starter.
He’s only the sixth Eagles QB to lead more than one team to the postseason: Tommy Thompson (1947-1949), Ron Jaworski (1978-1981), Randall Cunningham (1988-1990, 1992), Donovan McNabb (seven times from 2000 through 2009) and Nick Foles (2013, 2017 and 2018). Only Cunningham, McNabb and Foles were drafted by the Eagles, so Hurts is in even more exclusive Philly company.
