This offseason, multiple reports surfaced claiming that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was “the source of much internal frustration” during the 2025 campaign, in part because “whatever personality traits had rubbed people the wrong way before had grown since” Hurts earned Super Bowl LIX Most Valuable Player Award honors in February 2025.
While speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Eagles general manager Howie Roseman offered a strong response to those stories.
Howie Roseman: Jalen Hurts stories are “unfair,” “unfortunate”
“I think it’s unfair,” Roseman said, per Johnny McGonigal of PennLive. “It’s unfair to have these articles written. But I also understand that it’s what sells at this point. So, yeah, I think it’s unfortunate.”
For a piece published in January, NFL insider Michael Silver of The Athletic shared that there was “a sense inside the locker room that the Eagles’ powerbrokers (Roseman, head coach Nick Sirianni and team owner Jeffrey Lurie)” had been “reluctant to criticize Hurts” after the team signed the signal-caller to a five-year contract extension reportedly worth up to $255M with $179.3M guaranteed in the spring of 2023.
Shortly before the latest Hurts-related bombshell report was posted, Lurie publicly said that “there’s no bigger fan of Jalen than me.”
Howie Roseman seems to address narrative about Jalen Hurts stories
Some reporters have suggested that people within the Eagles’ front office wanted to use media outlets to send a message to Hurts after Philadelphia suffered a wild-card playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers in January. Roseman seemed to pour cold water over such theories on Tuesday.
“If we have any issue with any of our players, we talk to them directly,” Roseman explained, per Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk. “So, from my perspective, from [Sirianni’s] perspective, from [Lurie’s] perspective, we’re not hiding behind anything. We talk to our players directly.”
Roseman may soon speak directly with wide receiver A.J. Brown about Brown being traded, in part because his working relationship with Hurts allegedly is no longer what it was when the two were “best friends.”
Additionally, rumors about Hurts’ long-term future may hover over the Eagles until he receives opportunities to quiet such chatter with his play in September.
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