Please don’t misunderstand me. This is not a lament that Hurts wasn’t a first-round pick; he wasn’t expected to be. In the weeks and days leading up to this year’s annual auction block of college talent known as the NFL Draft, however, the former Alabama and Oklahoma quarterback’s draft stock has been elevating.
A number of draft experts have projected Hurts going in the second or third round, and we’ll see how accurate that is when reality sets in as Saturday gets set to turn the clock to Sunday and closes the book on Day 2 of the draft.