Hour 2: Is Jalen Hurts Overhated?

First Take

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🗓️ 14 July 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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First Take resumes with Jalen Hurts falling into the 6th tier of QB voting by execs, coaches and scouts! Is this correct? Has the league figured out he can't throw down the middle of the field? Then, comedian and ESPYS host Marcello Hernandez joins to preview his newest film, 72 Hours! Next, if your life depended on it, are you taking the Rams or the field? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.2	First at 7 Eastern, Camboozer and the Grizzlies face the Warriors.
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0:39.0	Welcome back to first take. Back to the NFL we go. ESPN's Jeremy Fowler surveyed league
0:44.4	execs, coaches, and scouts to rank the top 10 quarterbacks entering the 2026 season.
0:50.1	Notably absent from the top 10 list was Eagles QB and Super Bowl champion Jalen Hertz.
0:55.8	In fact, according to Fowler, Hertz was ranked in the sixth tier of quarterbacks along with Trevor Lawrence.
1:01.9	So he broke this thing down. It went Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, a gap.
1:06.0	Then Matthew Stafford in his own tier.
1:08.5	Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson in their own.
1:10.4	Then it's Prescott, Herbert, Drake May, Jared Gough, another gap, and then we see the rest of the quarterback.
1:16.2	So Jalen Hertz, nowhere near the top 10 and much further down this list here in terms of tiers.
1:22.3	So, R.C., do you have a problem with the tier that Jalen Hertz fell to? Well, you absolutely have a problem with the tier that Jalen Hertz fell to?
1:28.4	Well, you absolutely have a problem with the tier that Jalen Hertz fell to more so than you do,
1:35.0	in my opinion, where he's ranked in the top 20 of quarterbacks.
1:38.4	Being ranked at 17, right, I think there's some wiggle room based on what we saw last year.
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