Eagles QB Jalen Hurts: ‘Money is Nice, Championships are Better’.

Jalen Hurts, the quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, spoke for the first time after agreeing to a contract extension that increased his income to become the highest paid player in the NFL.

PHILADELPHIA: On this day precisely three years prior, quarterback Jalen Hurts was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round, shocking the whole NFL community.

Three years later, on Monday morning, Hurts was speaking about his four-year, $255 million contract extension that he had signed a week before in front of a group of reporters and family members.

Hurts recalled “shocking the world and taking a kid from Oklahoma three years ago today.” “It happens, and I know a lot of people didn’t understand it at the time.”

Time will tell, of course, because when they gave Carson Wentz a contract worth more than $100 million four years ago, they felt they had one.

Whether people still hold grudges against him for his accomplishments—which included leading the Eagles to the Super Bowl in his second season as a starter and placing second in the league MVP competition—he has never given a damn.

He stated, “I think being the best player I can has always been the main thing for me, since I was in high school.” “I adore this game. I adore the grind. I enjoy the hustling involved, and the effort never stops. Everything keeps going.

Without this game, I wouldn’t be in this position now, with these chances to guide this city. I’m going to give it everything I’ve got, just like I always have, and continue to strive to lead and excel in it.

The highest-paid player in the game was introduced with a lot of hype.

In the first and second rows of the team’s auditorium, where press conferences are held, there were seats designated as “reserved.”

In his five-minute opening statement, owner Jeffrey Lurie referred to Hurts as a “culture setter.”

Hurts sat in the front row and occasionally nodded in response to the owner’s comments. Hurts’ agent Nicole Lynn was seated next to his girlfriend Bryonna Burrows, to his left.

General manager Howie Roseman, head coach Nick Sirianni, and Lurie’s son Julian, who will one day inherit the team from his father, were seated in the second row.