INDIANAPOLIS -- Jalen Hurts is making this much clear: He is a quarterback.
In his media session at the NFL combine, Hurts was asked whether he would consider switching positions.
"I've always been a team-first guy," Hurts said, "but I think I'm a quarterback. I think that's that."
Hurts' comments come less than a week after his trainer, Chip Smith, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Hurts would work out only as a quarterback at the combine.
"He wants to show people that he's a quarterback," Smith told the AJC. "That's the big thing. There is talk about other positions and that kind of stuff. ... He's a great athlete. He played in two national championships. He's got more film than any of the other quarterbacks out there (but) he's a quarterback."
The Heisman finalist was a quarterback his entire career at Alabama and Oklahoma, but his athleticism makes him an attractive candidate to be converted to wide receiver or running back. In a conference call, ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. said he sees Hurts as a Taysom Hill-type gadget player.
In his final season at Oklahoma, Hurts threw for 3,851 yards, 32 touchdowns and eight interceptions along with a career-high 1,298 rushing yards and 20 rushing touchdowns on 233 carries.
Hurts' comments and situation echos the one reigning MVP Lamar Jackson faced during his combine in 2018.
Asked what he would tell a team that asked him to switch positions, Jackson said, "No sir, I'm a quarterback."