Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, Cowboys CeeDee Lamb Take Trip Down Memory Lane at Pro Bowl

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts hit Dallas Cowboys receiver CeeDee Lamb for a touchdown during the Pro Bowl flag football game. Here's more from the weekend of events:

The thing about all-star games like the Pro Bowl is rivals become teammates.

Earlier in the week, Philadelphia Eagles running back D'Andre Swift joined Dallas Cowboys pass rusher Micah Parsons for a podcast.

On Sunday, in the flag football competition between the NFC and AFC, Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Cowboys receiver CeeDee Lamb for the NFC’s first points of the game in what turned into the NFC’s 64-59 victory in Orlando.

Hurts and Lamb were former teammates at the University of Oklahoma, so the two are far from strangers.

The duo connected for 14 touchdowns at Oklahoma. Hurts threw 32 in that one season together back in 2019.

CeeDee Lamb and Jalen Hurts connected for plenty of touchdowns during their time together at the University of Oklahoma / USA Today

The AFC won the flag football portion of the game 50-34 but the NFC dominated the skills competition leading up to the game and in the tug-of-war event held after the third quarter, and those events were added to the final score.

Two of the Eagles’ seven players were in the tug of war that won the first of the two heats that were swept by the NFC – left guard Landon Dickerson and right tackle Lane Johnson.

Center Jason Kelce participated in the snapshots competition with the centers trying to snap the ball into numbered holes on a big board. He scored five points, but that wasn’t enough to win.

The other Eagles at the game were cornerback Darius Slay - who participated in the closest-to-the-hole golf event but didn’t come close to hitting the island green at a local Orlando golf course - edge rusher Haason Reddick, and Swift.

Receiver A.J. Brown was selected for the game but pulled out to give Detroit Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown a shot at his first Pro Bowl.

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Swift had three catches for 36 yards in the flag football game while Hurts finished 7-for-10 for 73 yards and the one TD to Lamb, with a 124.3 passer rating. That was a higher PR than the other two NFC QBs – the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Baker Mayfield (100.0) and the Seattle Seahawks Geno Smith (84.3).

Somehow, Lamb wasn’t named the MVP despite catching three touchdowns. A case could have been made for St. Brown to win the MVP after he collected 10 receptions for 117 yards.

Coincidentally, it went to another former Sooner in Mayfield, who was 9-for-13 for 102 yards with two touchdowns and an interception.

The defensive MVP was the New Orleans Saints’ Demario Davis.