For an auction to support the Eagles Autism Foundation, Philadelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts contributed a VIP experience. He’s going to take the winning bidder and two guests on a tour of the NFL team’s NovaCare Complex, hold a private question-and-answer session and sign a jersey.

With the charity auction set to close at 4 p.m. CDT Wednesday, the top bid had reached $27,000 on Tuesday night.

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When informed of the bid, Hurts said: “I guess they’re expecting a fun time, so the pressure’s on me.”

Hurts could say the same thing about the Eagles’ fanbase in general for the 2023 NFL season.

The Eagles will kick off Hurts’ third season as their starting quarterback on Sunday when Philadelphia visits the New England Patriots.

Last season, the Eagles went 16-2 with Hurts in the lineup. The season ended with a 38-35 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12, even though Hurts had 304 passing yards, a touchdown pass, 70 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns. No other player in NFL history has reached those four stats in the same game.

That performance followed the pattern of the 2022 regular season established by Hurts as he became the first NFL quarterback with a passer rating of more than 100 to score at least 10 touchdowns. The former Alabama QB finished second in the balloting for The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award in 2022.

But if the pressure’s on Hurts in 2023, he professes not to feel it.

“I think expectations and all those things, more opinions that come, they come when you have success and when you’re doing something right,” Hurts said during an appearance on “The 94 WIP Afternoon Show” on Tuesday. “And I think for me, I’ve been able to focus on my own expectations and my own standards and my own opinions about things because those are the things that I’ve always focused on. Everybody has always had an opinion, everybody has always had their thoughts, and I’ve never reported to those things, only my standards, and so that is what will continue to be. …

“I may surprise other people, but I’ll never surprise myself.”

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The Eagles and the Patriots will square off at 3:25 p.m. CDT Sunday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, for the opening week of the NFL’s 104th season.

Philadelphia’s first game of the 2023 season and not its final game of the 2022 season is what Hurts has on his mind.

“I’m over it,” Hurts said about the Super Bowl loss. “Shoot, we got a game this week. We got a game this week. I’m a thousand percent focused on what’s to come.”

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