With 2:07 left in the CFP national championship game for the 2016 season, Alabama freshman quarterback Jalen Hurts ran 30 yards for a touchdown as the Crimson Tide took a 31-28 lead against Clemson with 2:07 left to play.

But Clemson QB Deshaun Watson responded with a final drive, and the Tigers defeated Alabama 35-31 when he threw a 1-yard touchdown pass with one second to play.

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With 5:15 left in Super Bowl LVII, Hurts ran 2 yards for a touchdown, then ran in a 2-point conversion as the Philadelphia Eagles pulled even with the Kansas City Chiefs at 35-35 on Sunday.

But Kansas City QB Patrick Mahomes led a clock-eating final drive that featured his 26-yard scramble and ended on a 27-yard field goal with six seconds to play that lifted the Chiefs to a 38-35 victory.

Hurts said his reaction to the CFP loss would be used again to deal with the Super Bowl defeat.

“I remember sitting there as an 18-year-old, 17-year-old kid, 18-year-old kid, and saying, ‘My sophomore year starts tomorrow,’” Hurts told reporters on Tuesday, “and nothing changes now. Going into Year 4 hungrier than ever, starving for more, and I just want to challenge myself to be the best quarterback/leader of men I can be for my teammates and the city and impact the people around me in the right way, so maybe next time around we can finish it off how we want to. …

“I call them formative experiences. They’re all teachable moments, and you decide if you want to learn from them or not. I really believe that, and that’s something that I control, that’s something that every individual in this organization controls — how we want to respond from it and to it, so it’s definitely a ‘so-what, now-what?’ mentality. There’s so much to be thankful for, so much to give gratitude towards.

“You talk about when you move forward, you move forward after times like this, and I know that I’ve experienced a number of things in seven years, it seems like, since my freshman year at Alabama, losing the national championship there. Y’all know what it is. I think when you try and reassess everything after the fact, I think you have to understand that it’s a complete clean slate, and you’re starting from Step 1. I think when you start from Step 1, everyone has to be on that same page with that. I always say the 24-hour rule. It’s a 24-hour rule. It stings, but I’m embracing everything that comes with it, and I’m embracing the challenge ahead. This team will have that mentality moving forward. I’m going to have that mentality. And there’s a true eagerness to move forward with the right intensity, the right focus, the right type of fortitude.”

The Eagles lost in Super Bowl LVII even though Hurts became the third player in the game’s history to account for at least 350 yards of total offense and four touchdowns. Hurts also tied the Super Bowl record for points scored with 20.

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Hurts completed 27-of-38 passes for 304 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions and ran for 70 yards and three touchdowns on 15 carries against Kansas City.

The NFL has had only two games in which a player passed for at least 300 yards, ran for at least 50 yards and scored at least three touchdowns, and Hurts has recorded both of them in the past two months.

Hurts said he had reviewed Super Bowl LVII and would be ready to put its lessons to work in 2023.

“I think there’s definitely a lot to learn from from it,” Hurts said. “I have had the opportunity to watch it, and I think I’m going to move forward with all of those experiences in mind and try and use those things to better myself and grow and help the guys around me, and I’m definitely going to use that as an experience to take steps and move forward. …

“I think you have to look yourself in the mirror and access it for what it is and do the things that need to be done to grow from it, so I think that’s my mentality going on, and I think that’ll be this whole entire team’s mentality moving forward.”

In his third season, Hurts earned Pro Bowl recognition, finished second in the voting for The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award, made the AP All-Pro second team and was the All-NFC quarterback for the Pro Football Writers of America.

Because he has completed three NFL seasons, Hurts is eligible for a new contract, even though he has a season remaining on the four-year, $6.025 million deal that he signed after Philadelphia obtained him in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft.

This season, Hurts had a base salary of $1.083 million with a $75,000 workout bonus. Mahomes had a base salary of $1.5 million with a $27.4 million roster bonus and a $550,000 workout bonus.

The sports-financial website spotrac.com estimates Hurts’ value on an open market would be a six-year, $265.373 million contract.

Hurts said a new deal isn’t his priority.

“I think the thing that I’m most focused on is winning,” Hurts said when asked about a new contract. “The only thing I care about is winning and, ultimately, winning championships. There will be a day where that conversation can be had, but today isn’t that day.”

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