Jalen Hurts graduates from Oklahoma with Master's degree
Former Oklahoma star Jalen Hurts just enjoyed one of the best seasons of his young and promising career in the National Football League. He carried the Philadelphia Eagles all the way to the Super Bowl this year. And he also recently signed a 5-year, $255 million contract extension with the Eagles.
Just in case you thought things couldn’t get any better for Hurts, they did on Friday evening. He graduated from Oklahoma with his Master’s degree in Human Relations on Friday.
Check out the video below as he receives a standing ovation from the crowd.
Hurts put up MVP-caliber numbers in 2022, his second year as the Eagles’ starting quarterback. He had 3,701 yards, 22 touchdowns, six interceptions, a 66.5% completion percentage, 760 rushing yards and 13 rushing touchdowns. He carried the Eagles all the way to the Super Bowl this season, but they fell just short to the Kansas City Chiefs, 38-35.
Eagles GM Howie Roseman teased a new contract for Hurts in March. He simply stated they wanted to make Hurts the top priority.
“It’s no secret that sometime relatively soon we want to extend our quarterback,” Roseman said, via NBC Sports Philadelphia. “Our whole kind of roster building is going to turn a little bit here from a quarterback on a rookie deal towards hopefully a quarterback on a long-term deal. Not that we have anything done or anything but that’s obviously our goal, is to keep Jalen here for a long time.”
The Eagles once extended former No. 2 overall pick Carson Wentz with a big deal but eventually traded him ahead of the 2021 season to make way for Hurts.
It certainly sounded like Hurts is a different type of priority for the Eagles’ brass.
“I think what I said was we want him here long-term,” Roseman said. “He’s going into the last year of his deal and so that’s going to be a priority for us to extend him.”
After a Super Bowl appearance, the Eagles went all in on their former second round pick for the foreseeable future.
The Eagles drafted Hurts in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft out of Oklahoma. Hurts found success with the Sooners and Alabama throughout his college career and finished as a Heisman Trophy finalist in 2019.
On3’s Chandler Vessels also contributed to this article.