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

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

“He’s a great player,” Hurts said. “I know we’re lucky to have him. I’m lucky to have him. He’s playing his tail off, and he’s having fun. Winning is 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 have to build on that.”

Hurts threw his final pass on Sunday night with 10:37 left in the game, just before a field goal gave the Eagles a 30-14 lead. Barkley still had his 72-yard touchdown run ahead of him, putting 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 in the last couple of weeks we’ve had some of those games where they’ve played out a little differently over the course of the game, but think about those four-minute situations where he takes over. And I think back to — and I told Saquon this — I think back to times in the past where we might have lost a game or maybe mismanaged a four-minute situation where he really makes it easier for us when things go about how we can handle four-minute situations, because he is able to hit a home run even with a full box.”

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

“He was efficient,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said of Hurts’ performance. “He played 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 had to pass it off, he had some big completions to AJ (Brown), especially on third down and a big one at the end of the third quarter.

“Jalen is a winner. I can’t emphasize that enough. I know I say that every time I come here, but look how many games we’ve won in the last four years. We won a lot of games and Jalen touches the ball on every attack 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 six-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 negated 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 cap Kenny Gainwell’s 13-yard touchdown run on the to put next. play as the Eagles extended their lead to 27-14 with 6:17 left in the third quarter.

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

“It is clear that it is important to be able to play complementary football,” said Hurts. “Being efficient is important. And obviously we have multiple ways we can attack teams and do things. And so I think at some point it will happen 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’m confident we’ll be ready.”

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

Last season, Philadelphia had a 10-1 record at the time, but won only once in the remainder of the season.

“I don’t believe in momentum,” Hurts said. “I don’t think it’s real. I think it could start and end at any time. And we need to make sure we don’t rely on that facade of momentum. Just grow and challenge ourselves to grow every day. Holding each other accountable and having the conversations we need to have because we are not a finished product. We are nowhere near a finished product. And there is so much more we can do.

“And so there is no sense of satisfaction. It’s great to get out there and play with confidence and feed off each other. That’s what team stands for. Team is about the group of individuals coming together to achieve a common goal and understand the sacrifices that come with it. But you know what, we’re not satisfied.”