Jalen Hurts hopes to go where no former Alabama quarterback has gone in 40 years – into a winning locker room after starting an NFL playoff game.
In the decades between Todd and the same-weekend starts of Jones and Hurts, only one former Alabama quarterback started an NFL postseason game.
From the 1960 through the 1967 seasons, Bart Starr made 10 postseason starts for the Green Bay Packers. Green Bay won nine of those games, including five NFL championship contests and the first two Super Bowls, with Starr earning the MVP Award in both NFL-AFL showdowns. Over the next five postseasons, Stabler started 11 games for the Raiders, with Oakland winning seven, including Super Bowl XI, and reaching at least the AFC Championship Game annually.
The Jets lost to the Buffalo Bills 31-27 in Todd’s postseason debut on Dec. 27, 1981, even though the former Davidson High School star passed for 377 yards. At the time, that was the second-most for a player in a postseason game and remains the high mark for a player from an Alabama high school or college.
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