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2022 BamaCentral Crimson Tide Pro Athlete of the Year

Former Crimson Tide standout Jalen Hurts has the Eagles thinking Super Bowl, and even his staunchest critics talking possible league MVP.
Christopher Walsh|
2022 BamaCentral Crimson Tide Pro Athlete of the Year
2022 BamaCentral Crimson Tide Pro Athlete of the Year

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What can we say? We love a good story about overcoming adversity. 

We also have an appreciation for how tough it is to play professional sports in a city like Philadelphia. 

Jalen Hurts has been masterful at both in 2022. 

Heading into last week's showdown with the NFC East rival New York Giants, Hurts had 2,940 passing yards, 20 touchdowns, three interceptions, 68.1 percent completion rate, 609 rushing yards and nine touchdowns, while leading the Eagles to an 11-1 start. 

He's also a huge reason why the Eagles lead the league in turnover differential (plus-13).

While he doesn’t have the passing numbers of a typical MVP, he's definitely in the mix for the award, and has his team on pace to potentially play in the Super Bowl.  

Along the way, Hurts won back-to-back NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors in Week 12 and 13 of the NFL season. 

He passed for a season-high 380 yards and scored four touchdowns (three passing, one rushing) with no interceptions for a 130.3 rating in Philadelphia’s 35-10 win over Tennessee. 

The previous week he passed for two touchdowns with no interceptions and had a career-high and franchise-record 157 rushing yards, the second-most rushing yards by a quarterback in a single game this season, against the Green Bay Packers.

Hurts was just the third former Crimson Tide quarterback to be named Offensive Player of the Week, joining Jeff Rutledge (Week 9, 1990) and Tua Tagovailoa (Week 2, 2022).

That's too bad for the former second-round draft pick, who critics claimed would never be a starting quarterback in the NFL. Nevertheless, he seems to still be getting better on an almost weekly basis.

Other former Crimson Tide athletes considered included Tua Tagovailoa, Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs, Herbert Jones, Haylie McCleney, and Justin Thomas

BamaCentral Pro Athlete of the Year

2022 Jalen Hurts

2021 Trevon Diggs

2020 Derrick Henry

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2022 Bama Central Crimson Tide Coach of the Year 

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Christopher Walsh
CHRISTOPHER WALSH

Christopher Walsh is the founder and publisher of Alabama Crimson Tide On SI, which first published as BamaCentral in 2018, and is also the publisher of the Boston College, Missouri and Vanderbilt sites. He's covered the Crimson Tide since 2004 and is the author of 26 books including “100 Things Crimson Tide Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die” and “Nick Saban vs. College Football.” He's an eight-time honoree of Football Writers Association of America awards and three-time winner of the Herby Kirby Memorial Award, the Alabama Sports Writers Association’s highest writing honor for story of the year. In 2022, he was named one of the 50 Legends of the ASWA. Previous beats include the Green Bay Packers, Arizona Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, along with Major League Baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks. Originally from Minnesota and a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, he currently resides in Tuscaloosa.

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