Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has a cool 12 touchdown passes and 11 touchdown runs this season – cool because the Jalen Hurts Foundation is donating $5,000 for every touchdown this season by the former Alabama quarterback to buy air-conditioning units at 10 School District of Philadelphia schools.

The TDs for ACs Campaign is an initiative of the Jalen Hurts Foundation that builds on an earlier donation. On April 19, Hurts donated $200,000 to purchase air-conditioning units for 10 Philadelphia schools.

Hurts talked about the program during an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday.

“The main thing is always to go out there and win and do what you can to help your team win,” Hurts said. “But it extends an opportunity to not only get the fans engaged, but to have purpose behind every touchdown. And it was something that I really thought about, the foundation team thought about, and just trying to continue to foster the change that we already began coming into it. It was something so natural.

“I never watched the news. I’m always locked in and on to the next thing. But I caught one day, I caught that kids were, it was fall and it was rising temperatures in Philadelphia and the school district of Philadelphia had to cancel school because it was so hot, and they didn’t have the proper air-conditioning systems to keep the kids in school. And I mean, something so simple, I mean, but yet so challenging and so important.”

According to the school district’s five-year strategic plan released last year, more than 100 of its schools need air-conditioning installations or upgrades. The 10 schools helped by Hurts’ initial donation are among those that had early dismissals to deal with excessive heat in classrooms.

“The Jalen Hurts Foundation was something that began and was brought to light this year,” Hurts said, “but it was always in me to be impactful and of service in the community, whether I was at Alabama, Oklahoma and now Philly being my home. And so I just wanted to create something that really fostered mentorship to our youth, something that could help progress our youth and serve our youth. And there are multiple ways to do that, and it’s just been a fun process in that I’ve been able to give back.”

The Jalen Hurts Foundation also accepts donations to help with the TDs for ACs Campaign.

Hurts and the Eagles return to the field against the Los Angeles Rams at 7:20 p.m. CST Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

Philadelphia has won its past six games to reach 8-2 for the 2024 season. Hurts was asked if the Eagles would make it back to the Super Bowl this season. Philadelphia won the NFC championship in the 2022 season.

“Let’s take it one game at a time,” Hurts said. “It’s been a fun year. It’s been a lot of different things that we’ve had to overcome, and there’s so much more out there for us to do. And so we just want to take it a moment at a time. Hopefully, in that we can rack up these touchdowns for AC.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.