Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts handed the football to running back Saquon Barkley 26 times and got 255 yards on Sunday night. He threw it to Barkley four times and got 47 more yards.

An offseason free-agent signing, Barkley scored on touchdown runs of 70 and 72 yards as the Eagles ran their winning streak to seven games with a 37-20 victory over the Los Angeles Rams.

“He’s a hell of a player,” Hurts said. “I know we’re fortunate to have him. I’m fortunate to have him. He’s playing his tail off, and he’s having fun. Winning’s the most important thing. (Having fun is) probably the second-most important thing, but it’s relative. But he just added a new dimension for us, and we just have to continue to build off of that.”

Hurts threw his final pass on Sunday night with 10:37 left in the game, just before a field goal put the Eagles ahead 30-14. Barkley still had his 72-yard touchdown run ahead of him to put the game completely out of the Rams’ reach with 2:44 to play.

“He set the tone for us, especially at the end,” Hurts said. “I think even these last few weeks, we’ve had some of those games where they kind of played out different in the course of the game, but you think about these four-minute situations where he takes it over. And I think back to — and I told Saquon this — I think back to moments where we may have lost a game in the past or maybe mismanaged a four-minute situation where he’s truly making things easier for us when it comes to how we handle four-minute situations, because of his capabilities, even with a loaded box, being able to hit a home run.”

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While Barkley set a franchise single-game record for rushing yards on Sunday night and pushed his season total to 1,392 rushing yards in his first 11 games for Philadelphia, Hurts did more than hand off against Los Angeles.

“He was efficient,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said of Hurts’ performance. “He made plays with his legs. He made plays with his arm. Took care of the football. And so, I thought, he was super-efficient. Our run game was really cooking, but when we needed to pass it, he had some big-time completions to AJ (Brown), particularly on third down and a big one at the end of the third quarter.

“Jalen is a winner. I can’t stress that enough. I know I say that every time I come up here but look how many games we’ve won in these past four years. We’ve won a crap ton of games, and Jalen’s touching the ball every single play on offense to help us do that.”

The former Alabama quarterback completed 15-of-22 passes for 179 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions and ran for 39 yards on 12 carries against the Rams.

Hurts’ touchdown pass came on a 6-yard throw to Brown as Philadelphia took its first lead at 13-7 with 1:27 left in the first half.

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After his 18-yard scramble was nullified by offsetting penalties on third-and-10 at the Los Angeles 44-yard line, Hurts came back with a 31-yard competition to Barkley to set up Kenny Gainwell’s 13-yard touchdown run on the next play as the Eagles extended their lead to 27-14 with 6:17 left in the third quarter.

The final play of that period was a 28-yard connection between Hurts and Brown on a field-goal drive, and Barkley scored his 72-yard touchdown after Hurts got the Rams to jump offside on fourth-and-1 at the Philadelphia 18-yard line.

“Obviously, being able to play complementary football, that’s important,” Hurts said. “Being able to be efficient is important. And, obviously, we have multiple ways that we can attack teams and do things. And so I think it’ll hit at some point in terms of when we’re asked to do some of these certain things. But duty hasn’t called for some of those moments yet, so when it does, I have confidence that we’ll be ready for it.”

Philadelphia’s most recent loss came on Sept. 29. At 9-2, the Eagles have a 2.5-game lead in the NFC East and the conference’s second-best record heading to Baltimore to play the Ravens at 3:25 p.m. CST Sunday.

At this point last season, Philadelphia had a 10-1 record but won only once more in the remainder of the season.

“I don’t believe in momentum,” Hurts said. “I don’t think it’s real. I think it can begin and end at any moment. And we have to make sure that we’re not relying on that facade of momentum. Just growing and challenging ourselves to grow every day. Holding each other accountable and having those conversations we need to have because we’re not a finished product. We’re nowhere near a finished product. And there’s so much more out there for us to go out there and do.

“And so there’s no sense of satisfaction. It’s great to go out there and play with confidence, feed off of one another. That’s what team is about. Team is about the group of individuals that come together to achieve a common goal and understanding the sacrifices that come with that. But, you know, we’re not satisfied.”

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