{"id":1549643,"date":"2023-02-09T18:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1549643"},"modified":"2023-02-09T18:20:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T23:20:13","slug":"why-did-jalen-hurts-change-jersey-from-number-2-to-number-1-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/why-did-jalen-hurts-change-jersey-from-number-2-to-number-1-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Jalen Hurts Change His Jersey From No. 2 to No. 1 With the Eagles?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
If Jalen Hurts<\/a> continues down the career path he's carved out for himself in recent years, he could easily see his No. 1 jersey retired by the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> at some point down the line. And that No. 1 jersey, whether in white, green, or the alternative black, is certainly a popular one, as it's become one of the top-selling NFL<\/a> jerseys on the market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hurts has become so synonymous with the number that it's often easy to forget that he wore No. 2 as a rookie before making the switch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The funny thing about the switch is that it wasn't the first time Jalen Hurts changed his jersey from No. 2 to No. 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Texas native wore No. 2 during his three-year run at the University of Alabama, as that's the number he wore in high school. But he switched to No. 1 when he transferred to Oklahoma for his senior season because CeeDee Lamb, who took over a famous jersey number<\/a> in the pros with the Dallas Cowboys, wore No. 2 for the Sooners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As for his professional career, Hurts wanted to wear No. 1 after the Eagles selected him in the second round (53rd overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft. But at that time, the number belonged to punter Cameron Johnston. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So Hurts went back to No. 2 for his rookie season, a campaign in which he appeared in 15 games, starting four of them, and completed 52% of his passes for 1,061 yards with six touchdowns and four interceptions, adding 354 yards and three scores on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But when Johnston signed with the Houston Texans in free agency ahead of the 2021 season, Hurts, who was set to become the Eagles' full-time starter after Carson Wentz<\/a> was traded to Indianapolis (and wore No. 2), jumped at the chance to get the No. 1 jersey he wanted all along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With the switch, Jalen Hurts became the first non-kicker in Philadelphia Eagles history to wear No. 1, and it's gone pretty well thus far. And, again, he may end up being the last Eagle ever to wear it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why Jalen Hurts switched his jersey from No. 2 to No. 1 with the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":1549670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15733,4915],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy did Jalen Hurts change his jersey number from number 2 to number 1?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n