Jalen Hurts

Jalen Hurts finished 2025 as the number 8 quarterback in total fantasy points and the number 7 in points per game. That ranking tells you exactly what kind of year this was — quietly productive, dual-threat as always, but never the league-winning ceiling the true difference-makers delivered. Hurts played all 16 games, the Eagles went 11 and 6 and won the NFC East, and he was on the field for every meaningful snap. But the rushing touchdowns carried the fantasy weight, the passing volume stayed modest, and one disastrous afternoon dragged the average down in a way the elite quarterbacks just didn't have on their ledger.

Now let's dig into the numbers. Hurts threw for 3,224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and added 421 rushing yards on 105 carries with 8 rushing scores. That rushing touchdown total ranked sixteenth in the league among all players — and it's the engine of his fantasy value. Without those 8 ground scores he's a mid-range starter; with them, a top-ten quarterback. The efficiency was genuinely good: completion percentage over expectation of plus 3.1, tenth among qualified passers, and adjusted net yards per attempt of 6.7, twelfth. He averaged 18.8 points per game with a steady floor most weeks — eleven of his sixteen games landed between 14 and 31 fantasy points. But the boom weeks were rare and the floor cracked twice: 8.9 against the Bills in Week 17, and a brutal 2.4-point disaster at the Chargers in Week 14 where he threw four interceptions. Pull that Chargers game out and the profile looks much steadier. You can't pull it out. Variance is variance.

The play that captures the season came in Week 7 against the Vikings — third quarter, second and 5 from his own 21, Eagles up 14 to 9. Hurts dropped back and hit DeVonta Smith down the middle for a 79-yard touchdown. 49 air yards, one throw, game flipped. That play alone added more than six expected points, and it's the version of Hurts the data keeps hinting at: when the protection holds and the deep shot is there, he hits it at an above-expectation rate. The problem for fantasy was those moments didn't come often enough to push him into the top tier. The volume and the touchdown distribution made him a reliable starter — not a weekly cheat code.