![]() Point is, QBs that rely heavily on the ground can work. Jackson is the obvious example, but Kyler Murray also averaged 50 yards per game in 2020. We’ve seen QBs that are elite runners succeed in the NFL recently. For context, Lamar Jackson averaged 80.4 rushing yards in his MVP year. ![]() He still took quite a few sacks, and his completion percentage was still rather low, at 54.87%, but he averaged 282.3 passing yards per game and had a 5:2 TD:INT ratio.įor his rushing, Hurts averaged 79.3 yards on the ground, which is a great mark. His performances in those games were actually pretty solid. Hurts only played a significant portion of five games, and only three of those games he started and finished. □: NFL app // Yahoo Sports app: /jtYth9pQ7h- NFL JanuHurts’ Three Full Games This puts his combined total touchdowns to turnovers at 9:6, which really doesn’t change much, and overall it’s not an ideal ratio by any means.ĪNOTHER rushing touchdown. He also fumbled nine times and lost two of them. The running and scrambling also did contribute to him taking 13 sacks and an 8.1% sack percentage, which would have put him in the top five worst percentages in the NFL. The story for Hurts was never going to be all about his passing, however.Ī strong runner in college, Hurts carried that to the NFL as well, rushing for 354 yards and three scores. Still in the bottom half, but not terrible either, like the traditional efficiency stats show. His ANY/A, which is the new school hot metric in determining QB ability, was 5.85, which actually puts him quite a bit higher, right below Mitchell Trubisky and above names like Joe Burrow, Tua Tagovailoa and Daniel Jones. That amounts to a 77.6 passer rating and a 41 QBR, which would put him pretty much at the bottom of QBs if he had played enough to count for leaderboards. The passing numbers as a whole don’t look great - 52% completion percentage, 1,061 yards and a 6:4 TD:INT ratio. ![]() Let’s take a look at Jalen Hurts’ 2020 season as the starting quarterback. Has the play he’s shown so far warranted that? ![]() Philadelphia spent a valuable second-round pick to grab him, so they clearly think he has the potential to be a franchise guy. The Eagles didn’t draft a QB and only signed an over-the-hill Joe Flacco to back Hurts up. Barring injury or catastrophe, Jalen Hurts is the Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback for the 2021 season. ![]()
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