Jalen Hurts is expected to be the starting quarterback for the Eagles in 2022. Before setting his sights on offseason improvement, though, he is having surgery on his injured ankle, according to NFL.com’s Kevin Patra. 
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Hurts initially wanted to avoid the procedure, but not long after he was seen in a walking boot following the team’s playoff loss, surgery was agreed upon as being necessary. He injured his left ankle in the team’s Week 12 loss to the Giants, which caused him to miss the following game. While that was his only injury-related absence this season, it affected his mobility throughout the latter stages of the campaign.
As ESPN’s Tim McManus writes, Hurts was upfront in acknowledging the injury. “Clearly, I’ve been battling little issues with my ankle” he said after the team’s 31-15 Wild Card loss to the Buccaneers. “For the last part of the season whenever I came back after the injury, our offense kind of changed a bit. I wasn’t running as much. I wasn’t doing those things as much simply because I wasn’t able to get freaky like usual”.
The 23-year old finished the season with 3,144 yards and 16 touchdowns through the air, but also 784 yards and 10 majors on the ground – both of which ranked first in the league amongst quarterbacks. His overall performance has led the Eagles to publicly commit to him moving forward, though some feel they could still make a move (perhaps with some or all of the three first round picks they currently own in the upcoming draft) for a more proven signal caller.
Hurts is expected to make a full recovery in time for the team’s training program in April, setting him up for a second season as the team’s starter.
get it done and be ready for next year. hopefully his running is back to 100%, because it wasn’t late last year.
And hoping while he’s rehabbing he realizes he doesn’t need to be running 100% of the time and learns how to read a play, cycle through his options and hit his receivers with more accuracy.
well said!
His biggest thing is rushing out of the pocket. If his first option isn’t there he tends to Either run outside the pocket or dump it off he has zero sense of pressure. Too many times with wide open receivers he left a clean pocket and was unable to see them
Who edits these articles? I mean, most of the errors seem to be in the headlines…