Jalen Hurd

Jalen Hurd
Baylor Bears – No. 5
Position Wide Receiver
Class
Senior
Career history
College
High school Beech Senior High
Personal information
Born: (1996-01-23) January 23, 1996
Hendersonville, Tennessee
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight 217 lb (98 kg)
Career highlights and awards

Jalen Tyler Hurd (born January 23, 1996) is an American football wide receiver for the Baylor Bears. He previously played running back for the Tennessee Volunteers.

Early years

Hurd attended Beech Senior High School in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He played for the Buccaneers' football team. As a junior in 2012, he rushed for a Tennessee state-record 3,357 yards with 43 touchdowns.[1] As a senior, he played in only one game after suffering a shoulder injury against Station Camp High School.[2][3]

As a standout track & field athlete, Hurd competed in hurdles (41.15 seconds in the 300m hurdles) and sprints (23.34 in the 200-meter dash and 51.79 in the 400-meter dash).[4][5]

Hurd was rated by the Rivals.com recruiting network as a five-star recruit and was ranked among the top running backs in the Class of 2014.[6] He committed to the University of Tennessee to play college football under then-head coach Butch Jones.[7]

In 2015, Beech Senior High School retired his No. 18 jersey.[8]

College career

University of Tennessee

2014 season

In 2014, Hurd appeared in all 13 games and made nine starts as a true freshman at Tennessee. He was called upon instantly as a contributor with the loss of senior running back Rajion Neal from the previous season to graduation. He shared the backfield with Marlin Lane, Devrin Young, and Justus Pickett. He made his collegiate debut in the season opener against Utah State. In the 38–7 win at Neyland Stadium, he had 11 carries for 29 yards and two receptions for 16 and his first career receiving touchdown, a 15-yard reception from quarterback Justin Worley.[9] He had an expanded role in the next game, a 34–19 victory over Arkansas State, with 23 carries for 83 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown.[10] In the next game, a primetime game against #4 Oklahoma, he had 97 rushing yards and 24 receiving yards in the 34–10 loss.[11] Two weeks later, in a game against #12 Georgia, he had 24 carries for 119 rushing yards in the 35–32 loss. He did have a crucial fumble late in the game that set Georgia defender Josh Dawson up for a fumble recovery touchdown.[12] After a stretch of three games with 39 rushing yards in a 10–9 loss to the rival Florida Gators, seven rushing yards against the Chattanooga Mocs, and 40 rushing yards against Ole Miss, he played in his first game against Tennessee's longtime rival, the #4 Alabama Crimson Tide. In the 34–20 loss, he had 16 carries for 59 yards and six receptions for 27 yards.[13] In the next game, a 45–42 2OT victory over South Carolina, he had 21 carries for 125 rushing yards and seven receptions for 58 yards and a receiving touchdown.[14] He followed that up with 118 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the 50–16 victory over Kentucky.[15] In the next game, a 29–21 loss to Missouri, he had 40 rushing yards and 40 receiving yards.[16] In the regular season finale, a 24–17 victory Vanderbilt, he was limited to five carries for 21 yards with a upper-body injury.[17] Tennessee finished with a 6–6 record and earned their first bowl game since the 2010 season.[18] In the 2015 TaxSlayer Bowl, he had 16 carries for 122 yards and two touchdowns in the 45–28 victory.[19] He finished the 2014 season with 899 rushing yards on 190 carries with five touchdowns.[20][21][22][23]

2015 season

Hurd shared the backfield with transfer Alvin Kamara and true freshman John Kelly in the 2015 season. In the season opener against Bowling Green, he had 23 carries for 123 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns in the 59–30 victory.[24] In the next game, a 31–24 2OT loss to #19 Oklahoma, he had 24 carries for 106 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the first overtime.[25] Following the tough loss to Oklahoma, he had 68 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown to go along with two receptions for 12 yards and a receiving touchdown in the 55–10 victory over Western Carolina.[26] In the next game, a brutal 28–27 loss to the Florida Gators, he had 102 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns.[27] Over the next six games, he totaled 485 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns. In that stretch was 80 rushing yards in a 38–31 victory over #19 Georgia and 92 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in a narrow 19–14 loss to #8 Alabama at Bryant–Denny Stadium.[28][29] In the 2015 Missouri game, he ran for a career-high 151 yards, which put him over 1,000 yards on the season, in the 19–8 victory.[30][31] The next week, he had 120 rushing yards and a touchdown in the 53–28 victory over the Vanderbilt Commodores.[32] The Vols finished the season with a 9–4 record and faced off against the #12 Northwestern Wildcats in the 2016 Outback Bowl. In the 45–6 victory, he had 24 carries for 130 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown to earn MVP honors.[33] He finished the regular season with 1,158 yards, the 12th most recorded by a Tennessee running back and the most since Arian Foster had 1,193 yards in the 2007 season.[34]

2016 season

Hurd came into his junior season in the same personnel package with Kamara and Kelly. In the season opener, a 20–13 overtime victory over Appalachian State, he had 28 carries for 110 rushing yards. He scored a touchdown in overtime off of a Joshua Dobbs fumble to give the Vols the go-ahead score.[35] In the 2016 Pilot Flying J Battle at Bristol against Virginia Tech, he had 22 carries for 99 yards in the 45–24 victory.[36] On September 24, in the 38–28 victory over the #19 Florida Gators, he had 26 carries for 95 yards to go along with two receptions for 25 yards and a receiving touchdown.[37] In the game against #25 Georgia, with the Vols trailing 10–0, he looked as if was going to score a receiving touchdown, but he slowed down and coasted on the way to the goal line and was hit hard by a Bulldogs defender and fumbled.[38] On October 31, 2016, after a 24–21 loss against South Carolina, head coach Butch Jones announced that Hurd would be transferring from the University of Tennessee.[39] Hurd finished his Tennessee career with 2,638 rushing yards, 20 rushing touchdowns, 67 receptions, 492 receiving yards, and 6 receiving touchdowns.[40]

Baylor University

On April 22, 2017, Hurd announced that he was transferring to Baylor.[41]

2017 season

Hurd sat out the season as a transfer

References

  1. ↑ Climer, David (August 19, 2014). "Vols' Jalen Hurd faces big question". The Tennessean. Gannett Company. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ Patton, Maurice (September 10, 2013). "Vols commitment Jalen Hurd has shoulder surgery". WBIR-TV. Gannett Company. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ Boclair, David. "Maybe the end to Jalen Hurd's high school career is not so sudden". Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  4. ↑ "Hurd, Jalen - DyeStat.com TFX - The Internet Home of High School Track, Field and Cross Country". DyeStat.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
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  6. ↑ "Rivals.com". sports.yahoo.com.
  7. ↑ Travis, Clay (March 14, 2013). "Butch Jones Hits Grand Slam: 5 Star Jalen Hurd Commits to Vols". Foxsports.com. Fox Sports Digital Media. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  8. ↑ Brooks, Chris (August 31, 2015). "Jalen Hurd calls jersey retirement 'awesome experience'". The Tennessean. Hendersonville, Tennessee: Gannett Company. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Utah State at Tennessee Box Score, August 31, 2014". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  10. ↑ "Arkansas State at Tennessee Box Score, September 6, 2014". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  11. ↑ "Tennessee at Oklahoma Box Score, September 13, 2014". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  12. ↑ "Tennessee at Georgia Box Score, September 27, 2014". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  13. ↑ "Alabama at Tennessee Box Score, October 25, 2014". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  14. ↑ "Tennessee at South Carolina Box Score, November 1, 2014". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  15. ↑ "Kentucky at Tennessee Box Score, November 15, 2014". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
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  17. ↑ "Tennessee at Vanderbilt Box Score, November 29, 2014". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  18. ↑ "Tennessee Volunteers Football Record By Year". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  19. ↑ "TaxSlayer Bowl - Iowa vs Tennessee Box Score, January 2, 2015". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  20. ↑ Butt, Jason (July 15, 2015). "Tennessee looking to build success behind Jalen Hurd, running game". Macon Telegraph. Hoover, Alabama: The McClatchy Company. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  21. ↑ Brown, Patrick (August 8, 2015). "Bigger and better: Jalen Hurd 'locked in' for Vols". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Knoxville, Tennessee: WEHCO Media. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  22. ↑ Dopirak, Dustin (August 8, 2015). "Jalen Hurd bulks up to deal with rigors of running back". Knoxville News Sentinel. Gannett Company. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  23. ↑ "Jalen Hurd 2014 Game Log". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  24. ↑ "Bowling Green State vs Tennessee Box Score, September 5, 2015". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  25. ↑ "Oklahoma at Tennessee Box Score, September 12, 2015". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  26. ↑ "Western Carolina at Tennessee Box Score, September 19, 2015". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  27. ↑ "Tennessee at Florida Box Score, September 26, 2015". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  28. ↑ "Georgia at Tennessee Box Score, October 10, 2015". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  29. ↑ "Tennessee at Alabama Box Score, October 24, 2015". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  30. ↑ Fallstrom, R.B. (November 21, 2015). "Tennessee beats Missouri 19-8, spoils Pinkel home finale". Associated Press. Columbia, Missouri: AP Sports. Associated Press. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  31. ↑ "Tennessee at Missouri Box Score, November 21, 2015". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  32. ↑ "Vanderbilt at Tennessee Box Score, November 28, 2015". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  33. ↑ "Outback Bowl - Northwestern vs Tennessee Box Score, January 1, 2016". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  34. ↑ "UT-VU Postgame Notes".
  35. ↑ "Appalachian State at Tennessee Box Score, September 1, 2016". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  36. ↑ "Tennessee vs Virginia Tech Box Score, September 10, 2016". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  37. ↑ "Florida at Tennessee Box Score, September 24, 2016". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  38. ↑ "WATCH: Jalen Hurd, blindsided while strolling, fumbles away sure TD". CBSSports.com. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  39. ↑ Low, Chris (October 31, 2016). "Jalen Hurd says he plans to transfer from Tennessee". espn.com. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  40. ↑ http://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/559716/jalen-hurd ESPN statistics
  41. ↑ Meyer, Max. "Jalen Hurd transferring to Baylor". NFL. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
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