The league’s players voted Jalen Hurts the No. 56 player in football for 2026, a ranking revealed Wednesday morning in the NFL Top 100 countdown. It is the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback’s fourth consecutive appearance on the player-voted list — and by a wide margin his lowest. Hurts debuted at No. 3 in 2023 after the Super Bowl LVII run, ranked 15th in 2024, and came in 19th last summer after winning Super Bowl LIX MVP. He is the first Eagle named on this year’s list.
The fall is not about counting stats. Hurts threw a career-high 25 touchdown passes in 2025 against just six interceptions, with 3,224 passing yards, 421 rushing yards and eight rushing scores, and made his third Pro Bowl. Per the team, he and Josh Allen are the only active players since 2000 with at least 30 total touchdowns in four consecutive seasons. But the season ended with a home wild-card loss to San Francisco, and the downfield passing efficiency that collapsed during it is what evaluators — and evidently opposing players — remember.
This is now two electorates reaching the same verdict in nine days. ESPN’s survey of more than 70 executives, coaches and scouts left Hurts out of its top 10 quarterbacks, with sixteen names ahead of him; the players’ vote just placed him behind roughly a dozen quarterbacks as well. Peer rankings are a lagging indicator — they measure last season, not next one — but when the men who game-planned against Hurts and the men who lined up across from him independently land on the same tier, that is an evaluation, not a snub.
The film case for a rebound is the same one it has been all offseason: the arm talent and the rushing production never left, and the fix is a passing operation that held Philadelphia back well before January. Camp opens with the report date Tuesday and the first practice July 29. The standard here has never been list placement anyway. Nobody in this city frames the season around No. 56; they frame it around February.
For fantasy purposes, the real-world slide is a gift. Hurts’s rushing volume and untouched goal-line role give him a weekly ceiling and floor that most quarterbacks ranked ahead of him on this list cannot offer, and his draft price keeps drifting toward value. Let his peers vote him down; draft him where the points are.
— Brotherly Gruff
