Jalen Hurts may have the biggest game of the year coming up at the Super Bowl 2025, but the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback is also dreaming a few years ahead to a possible Olympic debut in flag football at LA28.

“I don’t know if there’s anything official. If we’d be able to participate but I know it’d be a great honour to be able to represent and have the opportunity to have a gold medal,” Hurts said at a press conference ahead of his team’s weekend Super Bowl clash against the Kansas City Chiefs.

“A lot of other sports have that opportunity. I think it’d be great for us to have that same chance as well.”

This is not the first time Hurts, who is an LA28 flag football ambassador, has expressed his interest in playing on USA’s flag football team at the home Olympic Games.

The 26-year-old featured in an ad campaign for LA28 in August 2024 in which he lights the torch of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum by throwing a flaming football into the bowl. The Coliseum is one of the venues that will be used during the next Summer Games.

Earlier that summer, Hurts attended the Eagles Girls Flag Football League Championships to support women’s flag football.

“It was an honour to be a part of this and witness this special event,” Hurts said. “There has to be some respect put on the work that it takes to prepare to play any type of game. Just to see how dialed in and focused they were, how excited they were to play the game, that meant a lot.

“I was a fan out there and I loved every moment of it.”

In 2022, Hurts was featured on “NFL Slimetime”, a weekly American football show for kids, in an episode where he helped to mentor young flag football players from the School District of Philadelphia.