Jalen Hurts’ backstory seems pulled from one of those AI/chatbot things if you were to instruct it: “Tell me how to create a perfect football player.”
Raised in Channelview, Texas, he grew up around football. His father, Averion Hurts, was a star offensive lineman and track and field athlete at Channelview High before going on to play for Howard Payne University, where he was an all-conference offensive lineman and All-American in track and field.
Averion Hurts and his wife, Pamela, had three children: two boys, Aversion Jr. and Jalen, and a daughter, Kynnedy, their youngest child. In 2006, Averion Sr. was hired as the football coach at Channelview High, where Averion Jr. played quarterback for him first and graduated in 2012 before going on to play for Texas Southern.
A few years later, it was Jalen’s turn.
