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Jalen Hurts
Oklahoma Saban → Riley · 2016–2019Two SEC titles at Alabama, a Heisman runner-up at Oklahoma after the transfer, and the era's portrait of the quarterback who outgrew his benching.
38-4 starter record · 9,477 pass + 3,274 rush · 121 TD
Hurts started 28 games at Alabama, won 26, lost the starting job at halftime of the 2018 national title to Tua, came back in the SEC Championship that next December to win the conference title in relief, and then transferred to Oklahoma to be a Heisman runner-up under Riley. The trajectory — undersized SEC starter who becomes the era's most accomplished quarterback transfer story — anchors a top-15 placement that the NFL trajectory has only made more legible. He is the era's closest thing to a player who made the second-act the master tape.
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