Pro Football Focus’ quarterback rankings have stirred up quite the discussion this week, and much of the debate has centered around where Jalen Hurts should rank among the rest of the league.
Hurts came in at fifth overall, the first quarterback in PFF’s second tier, which they labeled as “high-end starter.” Some Eagles fans believe Hurts deserves more respect, but Joe DeCamara believes his spot on that list is more than fair.
“I don’t think it’s disrespectful at all to call him a tier 2,” DeCamara said. “I think he has a lot more around him than a lot of the quarterbacks in tier one. That’s a big part of why the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
“He obviously played great the last two games, after having his ass carried for 18 weeks.”
Jon Ritchie countered that Hurts’ Super Bowl ring and outplaying Patrick Mahomes in that game cements him as elite, but DeCamara doesn’t believe that’s grounds to call Hurts the cream of the crop.
“Was Eli better than Tom Brady? No,” DeCamara said. “And he beat him twice.”
DeCamara gives Hurts his flowers for bringing Philly another title, and for how he played in the biggest games of the season, but he still doesn’t overlook Hurts’ skill level and the talent he has around him in comparison to the quarterbacks that are widely considered elite.
“Obviously I have great appreciate for what he and the team accomplished,” DeCamara said. “I’m just not at the point where I would leapfrog him into tier one. He had more around him and will have more around him than other quarterbacks.”