Jalen Hurts leads NFC past AFC in high-scoring Pro Bowl Games flag football exhibition

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jalen Hurts said the flag football played in the Pro Bowl Games doesn’t have the negative connotation that it may have once had.

If anything, Hurts believes the NFL's all-star exhibition is as competitive as ever.

“It is like being a kid again but it also turns competitive with everything’s that at stake,” the Eagles quarterback said after throwing three touchdown passes in the NFC’s 66-52 win over the AFC on Tuesday night. “Even with the (2028) Olympics, there’s a lot of guys that have a great passion to go out there and represent.”

There was plenty of representation from both sides in the high-scoring event, which was played indoors this year at the Moscone Center — a convention center near downtown San Francisco — before a crowd of 3,100.

It was the first time the Pro Bowl was held during Super Bowl week, and the host city was well represented, with 49ers greats Jerry Rice and Steve Young — who have a combined 20 Pro Bowl selections — serving as head coaches. The Super Bowl is Sunday at the 49ers' home, Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.

Dak Prescott of the Cowboys wore a bucket hat and passed for four touchdowns, while the Lions' Jared Goff threw two TD passes.

For the AFC, the Bengals' Joe Burrow threw for a touchdown and was credited with a passing and receiving score on the same play when he and Dolphins running back De’Von Achane pulled off a trick play in the first half.

It was a good day all around for Burrow and his Bengals teammates.

Cincinnati wide receiver Tee Higgins caught touchdown pass from Burrow's backup, Joe Flacco, while receiver Ja'Marr Chase had a highlight on defense — a one-handed interception of Goff that he returned 50 yards for a TD.

Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders started for the AFC and threw for 152 yards and two touchdowns. Sanders was a late addition to the event as the replacement for Drake Maye, who's preparing to lead the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

Broncos tackle Garrett Bolles got in on the fun, catching one of Sanders' TD throws.

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AFC quarterback Shedeur Sanders (12), of the Cleveland Browns, speaks with his brother Shilo Sanders, left, after the NFL Pro Bowl football game against the NFC, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

AFC tight end Dalton Kincaid (86), of the Buffalo Bills, runs with the ball while defended by NFC cornerback Nahshon Wright (26), of the Chicago Bears, during the first half of the NFL Pro Bowl football game, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

AFC wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase (1), of the Cincinnati Bengals, returns an interception for a touchdown against the NFC during the first half of the NFL Pro Bowl football game, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

AFC wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase (1), of the Cincinnati Bengals, defends a pass intended for NFC running back Bijan Robinson (7), of the Atlanta Falcons, during the first half of the NFL Pro Bowl football game, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

NFC quarterback Jalen Hurts (1), of the Philadelphia Eagles, passes the ball against the AFC during the first half of the NFL Pro Bowl football game, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

CAIRO (AP) — Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of Libya's late dictator Moammar Gadhafi, was killed in the northern African country, Libyan officials said Tuesday.

The 53-year-old was killed in the town Zintan, 136 kilometers (85 miles) southwest of the capital, Tripoli, according to Libyan's chief prosecutor's office.

The office said in a statement that an initial investigation found that Seif al-Islam was shot to death, but did not provide further details about the circumstances of his killing.

Khaled al-Zaidi, a lawyer for Seif al-Islam, confirmed his death on Facebook, without providing details.

Abdullah Othman Abdurrahim, who represented Gadhafi in the U.N.-brokered political dialogue which aimed to resolve Libya’s long-running conflict, also announced the death on Facebook.

Seif al-Islam's political team later released a statement saying that “four masked men” stormed his house and killed him in a “cowardly and treacherous assassination.” The statement said that he clashed with the assailants, who closed the CCTV cameras at the house “in a desperate attempt to conceal traces of their heinous crimes.”

Born in June 1972 in Tripoli, Seif al-Islam was the second-born son of the longtime dictator. He studied for a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and was seen as the reformist face of the Gadhafi regime.

Moammar Gadhafi was toppled in a NATO-backed popular uprising in 2011 after more than 40 years in power. He was killed in October 2011 amid the ensuing fighting that would turn into a civil war. The country has since plunged into chaos and divided between rival armed groups and militias.

Seif al-Islam was captured by fighters in Zintan late in 2011 while attempting to flee to neighboring Niger. The fighters released him in June 2017 after one of Libya's rival governments granted him amnesty. He had since lived in Zintan.

A Libyan court convicted him of inciting violence and murdering protesters and sentenced him to death in absentia in 2015. He was also wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity related to the 2011 uprising.

In November 2021, Seif al-Islam announced his candidacy in the country’s presidential election in a controversial move that was met with outcry from anti-Gadhafi political forces in western and eastern Libya.

The country’s High National Elections Committee disqualified him, but the election wasn’t held over disputes between rival administrations and armed groups that have ruled Libya since the bloody ouster of Moammar Gadhafi.

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam makes the victory sign as he appears at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2011, file photo, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi speaks to the media at a press conference in a hotel in Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)