Alabama’s Jalen Hurts has been under siege all season long, from all angles, because he’s simply not a great throwing quarterback.

His coach, Nick Saban, finally made a change Monday night, midway through the National Championship game. The move worked perfectly, and the Crimson Tide beat Georgia 26-23 in overtime.

ESPN quickly went to find Hurts — perhaps because he’d already shown sportsmanship by so vehemently supporting Tua Tagovailoa, his replacement — and was rewarded with one of the most graceful interviews we’ve seen in sports.

Yeah, he just won a National Championship and wasn’t going to lash out, but he just as easily could have refused to speak. Hurts is only a sophomore, and his days of playing QB at Alabama are likely over; at the very least, he’ll have to compete against a legend for the starting spot next season. Here he is, though, composed and thrilled, even though a night he no doubt dreamed of and prepared for didn’t go the way he’d hoped it would.