2025 NFC Championship: Jalen Hurts has opportunity to end this dubious streak of Super Bowl losing QBs
History has not been on the side of quarterbacks who lost in their first game Super Bowl Appearance, especially over the past 30 years. Jalen hurts He has a chance to finish one of the strangest dribbles in recent times Super Bowl History, which needs to win the NFC Championship Game to get the job done.
If it hurts and Philadelphia Eagles Overcome Washington leadersHurts would become the first quarterback to lose in his first Super Bowl appearance as a starter and return to the championship game since Jim Kelly in 1992 — when there were 28 teams in the tournament. NFL. The last 19 quarterbacks made their Super Bowl debut as starters and lost, never returning to the championship game.
Of those 19 quarterbacks, only Drew Bledsoe returned to the Super Bowl — as a backup Tom Brady On 2001 New England Patriots. Steve McNair, Jake Delhomme, Donovan McNabb, Colin Kaepernick, Jared Goff, Jimmy Garoppolo and Joe Burrow Everyone returned to the conference championship game — but not the Super Bowl.
Pain could end this 33-year slide. Kelly went to four straight Super Bowls, but lost in each one. The last quarterback to lose in his first Super Bowl appearance as a starter only to win a Super Bowl later in his career was John Elway in 1998 (Super Bowl XXXII).
Of the quarterbacks who lost a Super Bowl in debt as starters and returned to the Super Bowl, only Len Dawson, Bob Griese, and Elway won the championship in their second appearance. That’s history on the line for Hurts, with the NFC Championship game being the first step.
QBs lose their first Super Bowl appearance and don’t return — since 1991
