Your Alabama Pro Athlete of the Week is Jalen Hurts. Trailing 26-7 in the 2nd half, Hurts threw 3 touchdown passes to lead the Eagles to a 33-26 win over the Rams. Hurts’ three scoring drives were 79, 87, and 91 yards.
Others of note:
Reyna Reyes scored the tying goal in the 86th minute to give Portland a 1-1 draw against San Diego.
Jereem Richards finished 2nd in the Men’s 400 Meter at the World Athletics Championships with a personal best and national record time of 43.72 seconds.
Khaleb McRae picked up a silver medal in the Men’s 4×400 Meter Relay at the World Athletics Championships.
Doris Lemngole posted a Top 5 finish in the Women’s 3000 Meter Steeplechase at the World Athletics Championships with the 2nd fastest anytime, anywhere collegiate time in the event.
Mac Jones threw for 284 yards and led a game-winning drive in the final 1:46 of San Francisco’s game.
DeVonta Smith had 8 catches for 60 yards, and scored Philadelphia’s go-ahead touchdown.
Henry To’oTo’o had 11 tackles and a tackle for loss in Houston’s Week 2 Monday night game.
Will Anderson recorded sacks in both of his games this week.
Josh Jobe had 11 tackles, and defended a pass in the end zone.
Mack Wilson had 12 tackles, a tackle for loss, and defended 2 passes.
Xavier McKinney had 6 tackles and an interception.
Daron Payne had 6 tackles and a tackle for loss.
Jihaad Campbell had 8 tackles.
Will Reichard made a team-record-long 62 yard field goal for Minnesota.
Jaden Shackelford averaged 21.0 points in G League United’s silver medal run at the FIBA International Cup.
Aaron Estrada had an 18 point, 5 rebound, 7 assist game to lead Oostende to win the BNXT SuperCup.
Tevin Mack scored 26 points in PGE Start Lublin’s attempt to qualify for the Champions League.
Dylan Smith recorded 11 straight outs via strikeout before finally retiring a batter on a groundout. Smith pitched 3.1 scoreless innings for the week.
Chase Lee pitched 4 scoreless innings with 4 strikeouts.
Matt Foster pitched 3 scoreless innings with just 1 hit allowed.
Connor Prielipp picked up his first professional win with a career-long 6-inning start.
Elina Sinz finished a career-best T-7th at the Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout on the Epson Tour.
Wilson Furr finished T-9th at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour.
Canon Claycomb advanced out of the first stage of DP World Tour qualifying.
