A little over five months ago, Jalen Hurts was named the Super Bowl LIX MVP after the Philadelphia Eagles took down the Kansas City Chiefs.
At this point, the veteran quarterback has barely cracked the Top 10 of several major quarterback lists and has local radio hosts raising red flags about his performances in training camp thus far.
To say that Hurts has bulletin board material for next year would be an understatement.
"Jalen Hurts is not having a great training camp," 94WIP's Joe Giglio said on Thursday.
"It's pretty clear from anyone. Number one, it's fair from my eyes. I haven't seen him have a great training camp. We only see so much. Then I look at what all the beat writers are saying, they're out there every day."
via @SportsRadioWIP: Joe Giglio is concerned about Jalen Hurts' rocky start to training camp
These days, it's common for quarterbacks to be graded out on a daily basis based on what reporters and analysts see during training camp sessions. 94WIP beat writer Eliot Shorr-Parks' grading results for Hurts have suggested the quarterback has been average, at best.
When Giglio fired off the round of grades Hurts received from his station's field reporter on Thursday, he felt more concerned than anything.
"Let me give you the grades that Eliot has given Jalen Hurts for the first two weeks of training camp," he states. "B, A, C, C-minus, B-minus, D-plus, C-plus, B-minus, A, B-plus, B, B-minus, A, C-minus. There are more Cs and Ds then there are As. If you average it out, it's like a C. It's been average so far this training camp."
At this stage of Hurts' career, he's going to be the No. 1 option at quarterback regardless of how he performs in training camp. These reps won't sway the coaching staff to make any critical decisions. If Hurts was playing lights out in training camp, it probably wouldn't garner a ton of fanfare as it's just training camp.
The same argument could be used in favor of Hurts' supposed "average" performance in practice. All that matters is what gets put on display on the game field. The last time Hurts played, he put together an MVP-caliber performance on the game's biggest stage to deliver the Eagles their second Super Bowl win in franchise history.
As long as Hurts is getting the reps and staying healthy, the Eagles should feel pretty optimistic heading into Week 1.
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