Jalen Hurts Praises God for Super Bowl Title, ‘He's Greater Than All the Highs and the Lows’
Jalen Hurts reached the pinnacle of professional football Sunday, yet his praise for God didn't waver. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback led his team to a 40-22 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, passing for two touchdowns and rushing for another as he was named the game's MVP, almost exactly two years after he lost to the same team in Super Bowl LVII.
Hurts and the Eagles raced out to leads of 24-0 and 40-6 and were never threatened.
"God is good. He's greater than all the highs and the lows," Hurts told a national television Fox audience. "And I think, personally myself, I've just been able to use every experience and learn from it, the good, the bad -- all of it -- using it as fuel to pursue my own greatness. And I think I couldn't do any of these things without the guys around me. We had a special group this year. We were able to learn from the past and get some nice new pieces and get over that hump."
"God is good. He’s greater than all the highs and the lows."
— Sports Spectrum (@Sports_Spectrum) February 10, 2025
“He gave us all the talents to be able to get here. So first and foremost, thanks to Him."
Eagles QB Jalen Hurts & head coach Nick Sirianni praised God after their #SuperBowlLIX win.https://t.co/V3ZARjM0XH
Hurts' path to a Super Bowl title is unique. He played for legendary coach Nick Saban at the University of Alabama and recorded a 26-2 record as a starter but was benched at halftime during the national championship game his sophomore season in favor of freshman Tua Tagovailoa, who led the Crimson Tide in the second half to a comeback victory. Tagovailoa took Hurts' position as Alabama's No. 1 quarterback the next season, but Hurts came off the bench in the SEC Championship to lead his team to a comeback victory -- a reversal of fortunes from the previous year.
Hurts earned widespread praise across the college world for his unwavering positivity and team-first mentality. For his senior season, he transferred to the University of Oklahoma, guiding the Sooners to the College Football Playoff.
The Eagles drafted him in the second round in 2020.
After Sunday's game, Hurts was asked to reflect on his football journey. It has been, he said, "not normal."
"It means a lot," he said of the Super Bowl title.
The championship is a culmination of "all that work over the years, embracing everything, taking every challenge head-on, and taking every joy and moment of achievement and success head on as well, and processing them all as one," he said.
His X bio reads, "Be who God called you to be."
Last week, Hurts told Sports Spectrum his faith is central to his life.
"I think my faith has always been a part of me, where I've always wanted to root myself in that and keep Him in the center of my life and everything that I do," Hurts said. "And so through the highs and the lows, He's greater than all of them. And that's something that I can always acknowledge. …I can always lean on and remember."
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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Originally published February 10, 2025.
