The NFL offseason is officially back, as Chris Simms is—for the third consecutive year—tripling double on his anti Jalen Hurts take.
Simms recently was asked if he would take Arizona Cardinals QB Kyler Murray over Eagles QB Jalen Hurts and Simms called Hurts the "most overrated player in football."
“I respect a lot about Jalen Hurts, but I think Jalen Hurts is also like the most overrated player in football," Simms said. "He plays QB for a team that’s an all-star team. They have the best o-line in football, it's not even close. They got maybe the best duo at receiver in all of football."
Simms, a former quarterback himself, infamously ranked Hurts outside of his top 40 NFL quarterbacks in 2021 and had him ranked just 25th heading into the 2022 season behind Justin Fields, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, and Zach Wilson.
Heading into 2023, Simms bumped Hurts up to the No. 7 QB in the NFL, following his brilliant performance in a Super Bowl loss.
Simms argued against Hurts in December of 2022 for the NFL MVP award.
Hurts, 25, is coming off of a down season where he threw for 3,858 yards, 23 touchdowns, and a career-high 15 interceptions, while rushing for another 605 yards, 15 touchdowns and losing a career-high five fumbles. After a 10-1 start, Hurts and the Eagles offense stalled out and the team losing six of their final seven games, including an NFC Wildcard round blowout playoff loss at the Tampa Bay Bucs.