The first of the four offensive coordinators who have worked so far with Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts agreed completely Thursday with one of the stronger statements made by Hurts’s father.
Averion Hurts said a lot in an interview with Bleacher Report’s Matt Hayes, but one of his most emphatic statements was this one: “Jalen is a quarterback, and he wants to play quarterback. He loves Alabama, loves Coach [Nick] Saban and everything about that place. But he wants to play, and he will play…"
Florida Atlantic coach Lane Kiffin, who served as Alabama’s offensive coordinator from 2014–16 and who helped recruit Hurts to Alabama, agrees wholeheartedly with that point.