Eagles QB Jalen Hurts on Steve McNair: 'The only one that I've truly looked up to'
Hurts said it was emotional playing the Titans in Tennessee last week because he grew up idolizing the late Steve McNair
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Playing in Tennessee last week carried real weight for Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, who grew up idolizing the Titans' late, great signal-caller Steve McNair.
Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate): #Eagles QB Jalen Hurts said it was emotional playing the Titans in Tennessee last week because he grew up looking up to Steve McNair: "Steve McNair is the only one that I've truly looked up to and watched and been enamored by—and I never got to meet him. ... He was kinda before his time." 🫡
McNair, the franchise's all-time leader and 2003 co-MVP, died in 2009. Hurts, a Houston native who starred at Alabama and Oklahoma, has long spoken about modeling his dual-threat style on the players who came before him — and McNair stands alone in that regard, a hero he never got the chance to meet. The emotional homecoming is another chapter in a season where the Eagles' leader has kept his team steady early.