Can Eagles QB Jalen Hurts Live Up to Super Bowl Pressure?

With a Super Bowl seemingly within reach a new deal and more money isn’t dulling quarterback Jalen Hurts’ edge as the Philadelphia Eagles get set for training camp.

Training camp this year for the Philadelphia Eagles is going to be a little bit different from the usual late summer event. 

For the first time since the season following the Eagles’ Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots, this team enters the preseason among the favorites to make it to the big game again. 

But if history tells us anything, it's that this franchise has just as good a chance of watching its quarterback flame out as it does making it back. 

And that’s where quarterback Jalen Hurts comes in, along with his shiny new contract.

“The new contract appears to have only fueled Hurts’ competitive fire, with the 24-year old refusing to dwell on last season’s success,” says NFL.com in a look at the team’s training camp subplots for this season. “With a supporting cast as talented as he’s had, and the benefit of more experience, there’s every reason to think Hurts could elevate his game to another level in 2023.”

In the season that followed its 2017 Super Bowl victory, Philadelphia finished with just nine wins and earned a Wild Card spot in the playoffs.

After a one-point win over the Chicago Bears in that Wild Card Round, the Eagles fell in the Divisional Round to the New Orleans Saints thanks to scoring zero points in the second, third, and fourth quarters.

By the time the 2019 season came around, quarterback Nick Foles was already gone, just one full season removed from winning it all. 

Two seasons later, quarterback Carson Wentz was out as well.

Now, after just two years of starting experience in the NFL, Hurts is the latest in a recent string of successful quarterbacks representing Philadelphia. 

And he’s trying to do something neither Foles or Wentz could do by not only making his Eagles championship contenders, but staying that way for years to come.

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