Is Jalen Hurts playing this week?
No injury designationJalen Hurts has no injury designation on the latest injury reports for the week 4 game against the Los Angeles Rams.
Kickoff: Sun, Oct 4 · 1:00 PM ET.
Checked Oct 3, 7:21 PM ET against the ESPN injury report and the NFL's official weekly report (via nflverse). Injury news can change up to kickoff, so confirm with the team close to game time.
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Fantasy football · Week 4
Our own start/sit calls for every player, with a projected score, the range of likely outcomes and the reasons spelled out. Built from usage, matchup, Vegas lines and injuries. How we rank
Bench. PHI's offense is expected to score only about 20 points, a tough scoring spot.
Why we say bench
- Projected 15.2 points, #16 among QBs this week, 0.8 points behind #12, the last one we'd start.
- PHI's offense is expected to score only about 20 points, a tough scoring spot.
- Averaging 29 pass attempts a game.
Recent form
Dashed line: the usual 16.7 a game
This week's matchup
- Expected team score
- ~20 pts
- Vegas line
- PHI underdogs by 3.5
- Game total
- 42.5
- LA vs QBs
- 7% fewer points
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Age
28
Height
6'1"
Weight
223 lb
College
Oklahoma; Alabama
Experience
6 seasons
Draft
2020 · Pick #53 (PHI)
Status
ACT
Grade Breakdown
What do these mean?Why 61.1?
Hurts grades as a solid mid-pack QB, 11th of 27. His accuracy relative to expectation was elite, but his plays added slightly negative expected points even against easier-than-average defenses. The sample is small: 95 dropbacks across 3 games.
Lifting the grade
- Completion percentage over expected of +7.0 points ranks 4th of 27, the biggest lift to the grade.
- Week 1 vs WAS: a 43-yard touchdown pass to Goedert on 3rd and 6 added 5.0 expected points.
- Week 1 vs WAS: a 64-yard deep right completion to Wicks added 4.2 expected points.
Holding it back
- EPA per dropback of -0.098 expected points ranks 20th of 27, which pulled the grade down.
- Week 2 vs TEN: an interception on 3rd and 8 returned 92 yards cost 9.2 expected points.
- Week 3 vs CHI: a fumble on 2nd and 20 recovered by Chicago cost 4.0 expected points.
Written by StatGrades AI from this season's play-by-play through week 4. It explains what happened; a grade isn't a forecast (what grades do and don't predict).
EPA / play
-0.047
Success rate
40%
WPA (sum)
0.62
Opponent adj.
-0.050
Plays graded
95
Advanced stats
2026 season through Week 3 · tracking data from NFL Next Gen Stats| Week | Time to throw | Aggressiveness | CPOE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3.26s | 8.0% | -2.1% |
| 2 | 3.50s | 8.1% | +4.2% |
| 3 | 2.89s | 8.0% | -4.6% |
What do these mean?
- Time to throw:
- Average seconds from snap to release.
- Aggressiveness:
- Share of throws into tight coverage, with a defender within one yard of the receiver.
- CPOE:
- Completion percentage over expected. Compares actual completions to what the difficulty of each throw predicts.
- Expected comp %:
- The completion percentage the throws would be expected to produce.
- Completed air yds:
- Average distance the ball travels in the air on completions.
- Intended air yds:
- Average distance the ball travels in the air on all attempts.
- Air yds differential:
- Completed air yards minus intended air yards. Negative means completions come shorter than the throws attempted.
- Air yds to sticks:
- How far the average throw travels past (or short of) the first-down marker.
Next Gen Stats data via nflverse (CC BY 4.0). Updated after games are final, not live, and covers QB, RB, WR and TE.