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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts addressed his pattern of alternating Super Bowl and Pro Bowl seasons.
As a late addition to the 2025 NFL Pro Bowl Games, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has recorded Pro Bowl seasons in two of the past three years. Sandwiched in-between those two campaigns, Hurts won the Super Bowl during the 2024 season.
Hurts also led the Eagles to the Super Bowl in 2022. In summary, he’s alternated Super Bowl and Pro Bowl seasons the past four years.
That’s a trend Hurts addressed during a media appearance at the Pro Bowl Games on Monday.
“Looking for the pattern to repeat itself,” Hurts said in a video posted on the Eagles official X account. “But, yeah know, it takes a lot of work and a lot of time. But you know, we’re enjoying this time right now before we even get to that point.
“You know what the end goal is all the time, though.”
Hurts won Super Bowl MVP in Philadelphia’s 40-22 victory against the Kansas City Chiefs last February. The Eagles quarterback completed 17 of 22 passes for 221 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.
This season, Hurts earned his third Pro Bowl nomination with a 64.8% completion percentage, 3,224 passing yards and 25 touchdowns. He also rushed for 421 yards and eight scores.
Jalen Hurts Earns Third Pro Bowl Nomination
There’s a couple footnotes that pundits should add to Hurts’s Super Bowl-Pro Bowl pattern.
The signal-caller made his first Pro Bowl in 2022, which was the same season he led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl this decade.
The 2022 campaign is arguably still Hurts’s best NFL season. In addition to the Pro Bowl, he earned a second-team All-Pro nomination and finished second in MVP voting.
With that, Hurts isn’t alternating Pro Bowl seasons. He also made the league’s All-Star festivities for 2025 as an alternate.
“Jalen Hurts has been named to the NFC Pro Bowl team after initially being voted as a fifth alternate,” wrote NBC Sports Philadelphia’s Reuben Frank.
Not to diminish Hurts’s 2025 season. He played well, especially considering the struggles and injuries the team experienced with the rest of the offense.
But being named the fifth alternate quarterback in the NFC doesn’t exactly scream All-Star.
Still, Hurts can claim to be a 3-time Pro Bowler. Only Donovan McNabb has earned more Pro Bowl nominations behind center in Eagles history.
Hurts Aiming to Get Back to Super Bowl
As far as the big game goes, the Eagles clearly have a pattern.
In the past two even-numbered years, the Eagles won the NFC championship to appear in the Super Bowl. Interestingly, in the odd-numbered years this decade, the Eagles have lost in the wild card round each time.
Hurts has been Philadelphia’s starting quarterback throughout that pattern.
If it continues as Hurts hopes, the Eagles will represent the NFC in Super Bowl LXI. That game will be at SoFI Stadium in Inglewood, California on February 14, 2027.
That location, though, means the Eagles will have to break one pattern. The past two times the big game was in California, the team lost in the wild card round.
The Eagles won the Super Bowl last February in New Orleans, Louisiana. They also won the Super Bowl in Minneapolis, Minnesota during February 2018.
Hurts and his team appeared in Super Bowl at the conclusion of the 2022 season, which was held in Glendale, Arizona.
Dave Holcomb is a sports reporter covering the NFL and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Lions. Originally from Pittsburgh, Holcomb has covered college and professional sports for outlets including FanSided, Rotowire and Yardbarker. More about Dave Holcomb
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