Everything Came Full Circle for Alabama QB Jalen Hurts in 2018

Amaze. Inspire. Surprise. You’ll be hearing those words a lot in the coming weeks—together, they cut to the heart of why we love sports in the first place. So in the days leading up to the naming of SI’s Sportsperson we’ll be looking back and shining a light on the athletes, moments and teams (and one horse) who did one—or all—of those things in 2018. There can be only one Sportsperson. But it has been a year full of deserving candidates.

Alabama center Ross Pierschbacher stood in front of his locker after the SEC Championship and tried to wrap his brain around the moment he’d just snapped and blocked through. “You couldn’t write this in a book,” Pierschbacher said after Alabama’s 35-28 win…