11 Christian NFL Players Who Give God All the Glory

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Jalen Hurts

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Third-year QB Jalen Hurts helms the Philadelphia Eagles, the NFL’s only remaining undefeated team. He recently described the thrill of “having the opportunity to play the game I love most in the best city of football,” adding “I keep God in the center, I give him all the praise, I lean on him all the time, and I know that everything unfolds the way it’s supposed to.”

Hurts credits his family for his strong faith foundation. “All my spiritual wisdom, all of my wisdom as a whole, comes from him, in some way, shape or form, whether that be passed down from my father, my mother, my grandmother,” he says. “In all the things that we experience in life—good, bad or indifferent—you have to keep [God] in the center.”

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Stephanie Martin
Stephanie Martin, a freelance writer and editor in Denver, has spent her entire 30-year journalism career in Christian publishing. She loves the Word and words, is a binge reader and grammar nut, and is fanatic (as her family can attest) about Jeopardy! and pro football.

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