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Why Alabama QB Jalen Hurts might be the next great signal-caller | SI.com/247
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Remember the circumstances? Clemson had just taken a 28–24 lead thanks to a Wayne Gallman touchdown run. Alabama got the ball back on its own 32-yard line with 4:38 remaining. A true freshman quarterback, who had struggled for weeks to throw the ball with any accuracy, had to drive his team 68 yards for a touchdown. Against one of the most ferocious pass rushes in college football. With a playcaller who had been on the job for eight days. In the national title game.
And he did it.
Forget everything else about Jalen Hurts’s first season as Alabama’s quarterback and just think about that drive. When the Crimson Tide absolutely, positively needed a touchdown against a defense that had shut down the offense for most of the second half on the game’s biggest stage, Hurts delivered that touchdown. That drive ended with him sprinting 30 yards up the middle and into the end zone. And if almost anyone other than Watson had been the other quarterback, Alabama would have another national title.
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Speaking of shoveling dirt, those quick to anoint Tua the next starter would be well-advised to heed the lesson of recent history: At the end of the day, he that can generate wins and get the offense to believe that he can do so, will claim the starting job. In two late-game pressure cookers on the road in Baton Rouge and Tampa, Hurts was asked to deliver a touchdown and he did so. His decision-making was never the issue: Hurts rarely was reckless with the passing game; it is his ability to see the field and see plays open up for him that will require the most coaching.
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