We've seen the headlines by now: "ESPN experts rank Jalen Hurts 17th"; "Hurts falls again in annual QB Tiers rankings", so forth and so on. The league's thinking on Jalen seems to have settled on an almost insulting "middle of the road, probably not even average" consensus that I just don't understand and will unpack. First off, just how is Jalen viewed? There have been three major consensus rankings that I've looked at this summer (the now-famous ESPN ranking of journalists,

Four seasons ago, I worked up a new quarterback statistic, based on Pro Football Reference's excellent ANY/A metric, and used that statistical analysis to model how good Jalen Hurts would be for the 2022 season. This model correctly predicted an All Pro type of season from Hurts, which came to pass. Here's a link to the original post, but the following is the formula for the subsequently updated version of the statistic (I will intend to reference this somewhat often over the

Ah, Terrell Eldorado Owens. The great hope of the longsuffering Eagles fans who arrived by trade in time for the 2004 season. He was finally going to solve years of mediocre to terrible WR play (seriously, check out this list of stiffs that Birds fans endured in the early years of the Andy Reid era). Owens had proven himself to be a premier playmaker in San Francisco and after increasing dissatisfaction there, forced his way to Philadelphia to team with Donovan McNabb. Firewo