Maybe high school prom is overrated.
At least that's what had to be going through Jalen Hurts' mind when he opted to skip it in order to move to Tuscaloosa and compete to be Alabama's starting quarterback. Of course, few thought he'd do that. Heck, few thought he'd even crack the lineup at all in Year 1.
He was a true freshman quarterback at a program run by Nick Saban. It had never happened before, and with Alabama at the top of just about everyone's national championship list, there was no chance that the future Hall of Fame coach was going to put his program in the hands of a guy who should have been at his prom earlier this year.