A clip of Michael Robinson lit up social media on Friday after the former fullback took aim at the idea that Jalen Hurts’ injury was simply a football injury issue and not something more calculated.
Hurts, the Super Bowl 59 MVP, will miss Week 6 against the Carolina Panthers after an ultrasound revealed a superficial blood clot in his calf. Doctors had originally cleared him to play against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 5 in London, and later updates showed the situation could be far more serious. Still, Robinson went in another direction and suggested Hurts may have used the injury to step away from the pressure around the Eagles’ struggles.
“I’m thinking that way, if I’m Jalen Hurts, or anybody in Jalen Hurts’ camp, I’m saying, ‘Well if everybody’s hurt, I’m hurt, too,'” Robinson said. “To me, it looked like Jalen is kind of getting himself out of the fray so that this lost season. He’s pulling himself out so that this doesn’t look like it’s on me.”
The reaction was immediate. Fans and analysts pushed back hard, arguing that Robinson had crossed a line by turning a medical situation into a referendum on Hurts’ character.
“‘I’m not saying that..’ Proceeds to infer that Jalen Hurts is faking the severity of his blood clot, despite reporting that the clot moved (which increases risk of it becoming a DVT, if it isn’t already).
Who is this moron?” fantasy expert Jeff Mueller wrote.
“THIS IS RIDICULOUS. The negative narratives around Jalen Hurts have to stop,” Robert Griffin III added.
“First Robinson says, ‘I don’t know nothing,’ then accuses Hurts of faking the ailment & bailing on the team. Jalen can’t even get injured without someone slandering him,” Glen Macnow added.
Fans piled on as well.
“Damn the guy can’t even be hurt in peace smh,” one fan wrote.
“How did the media manage to find a way to make Jalen Hurts being injured controversial?????????” another questioned.
Hurts has been the centerpiece of the Eagles since replacing Carson Wentz, and the source report noted that he even risked his health by unknowingly playing with the clot against the Jaguars. Philadelphia sits at 2-3, with plenty of questions hanging over the team - but whether Hurts is committed to the Eagles has not been one of them.
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