With an environment friendly three-touchdown effort, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts earned the Most Useful Participant award of Tremendous Bowl LIX on Sunday following a 40-22 win over the two-time defending champion Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
Hurts completed the competition 17 of twenty-two for 221 yards, two landing passes and one interception — plus 11 carries for 72 yards and one other rating on the bottom — on his approach to claiming his first MVP award and serving to Philadelphia play spoiler towards a Kansas Metropolis crew searching for the primary three-peat in Tremendous Bowl historical past. It was probably the most speeding yards by a quarterback in a Tremendous Bowl and the thirty fourth time a quarterback has received the award.
Hurts is the fifth QB to have a number of TD passes and a speeding rating in the identical sport, becoming a member of Ken Anderson, Brett Favre, Joe Montana and Patrick Mahomes.
Sunday’s dominant victory resulted within the Eagles’ second Lombardi Trophy, this one arriving within the franchise’s fifth Tremendous Bowl look and in coach Nick Sirianni’s fourth yr as head coach.
On an evening by which the Eagles by no means misplaced management, Hurts’ poise was on full show from wire-to-wire. His finest second got here late within the third quarter along with his crew up 27-0, when he uncorked a 46-yard dime to huge receiver DeVonta Smith for a rating to all however clinch the sport.
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The end result was hardly doubtful after a 24-0 halftime lead, tied for the second-largest in Tremendous Bowl historical past. The sturdy begin noticed Philly’s offense capitalize on a smothering defensive exhibiting, because the unit saved Kansas Metropolis scoreless and compelled 5 punts with two interceptions (and a pick-six) throughout the Chiefs’ first seven drives.
The sport started with two punts, however Hurts opened the scoring within the first quarter courtesy of a signature “tush push,” arrange by a 27-yard completion to wideout Jahan Dotson. Hurts’ solely blemish got here 11 performs into Philly’s subsequent sequence, when, going through stress, he underthrew a cross to wideout A.J. Brown that was picked off by security Bryan Prepare dinner. It was Hurts’ first choose since Nov. 10 (Week 10) and the Chiefs’ first takeaway of this postseason.
Hurts rapidly bounced again to steer the Eagles to a subject aim and TD over their subsequent three drives, with the latter approaching a 12-yard cross to Brown simply earlier than halftime.
With Tremendous Bowl LIX within the books, Hurts has the added distinction of turning into a champion and MVP on high of being the one Eagles sign caller to start out a number of Tremendous Bowls.
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