PHILADELPHIA – Jalen Hurts threw two touchdown passes in his first game since a season-ending concussion, Dallas Goedert threw three stiff-arms on a sturdy TD catch and the Philadelphia Eagles took their NFL-best defense to a wild-card 22: 10 playoff win against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night.

Hurts threw for a modest 131 yards but played without hesitation in his return from a three-week layoff following a concussion in December. He started strong – six straight completions to open the game – and held the Packers off with a 24-yard touchdown pass to Goedert in the third quarter that will forever be etched on the franchise’s postseason highlight reel .

“That was a really fun play. “It might be my favorite touchdown of my career,” Goedert said. “I had an opponent to beat and I succeeded. I’m not ready to go home yet and I did whatever it took to help the team get the ‘W.’

Philadelphia’s defense did the rest.

Three plays later, the Eagles converted a fumble on the opening kickoff into Hurts’ first touchdown pass, and the defense sacked Jordan Love twice in the first half. With a 19-10 lead heading into the fourth, the Eagles forced a turnover on downs when Green Bay scored on a fourth-and-3 from its own 41 with five minutes to play.

Quinyon Mitchell had a final interception of Love with 1:51 left in the game that sealed the win for the NFC East champions, who will host a divisional game at Linc next week.

Hurts said the Eagles need to “find our rhythm earlier in the game.”

“I think it’s been a strange year considering how busy it’s been, and obviously I’ve been kind of furloughed for the last couple weeks or so,” Hurts said. “Being back, just getting into that rhythm and leaving it all out there, that’s what it’s all about.”

Barkley, who led the NFL in rushing with 2,005 yards, had 119 yards in his Eagles’ postseason debut.

“A year ago I posted a tweet while I was watching playoff football on my couch that I had to find a way to get back in,” said Barkley, who spent his first six NFL seasons with the New York Giants . “So I’m just happy to be here.

“And kudos to my teammates, and most importantly, let’s keep going. And we get another home game, so that’s good.”

The Eagles even had time for some light reading as wide receiver AJ Brown flipped through the pages of “Inner Excellence” by Jim Murphy on the bench. Brown had one catch for 10 yards.

Love threw for 212 yards and was intercepted three times and sacked twice after suffering a right elbow injury in the regular season finale against Chicago.

“That was their goal, to take the lead away from them, and they did that well,” Love said. “It’s just a matter of executing and executing the plays, and that just wasn’t good enough.”

Josh Jacobs ran for 81 yards and a score – and beat the Green Bay offense with a 31-yard run in the third, where he fended off a tackle, had his jersey stretched to his heel by a defender, plowed in another and scored two another drew hapless Eagles to the 1-yard line. Jacobs tied the game on the next play, cutting the score to 16-10.

Aided by an unnecessary roughness flag in Green Bay, Hurts brought the Eagles close enough for Jake Elliott to kick a 30-yard field goal for a 19-10 lead. Elliott needed the short kick to boost his confidence after missing an extra point on Goedert’s touchdown.

Elliott, who has struggled with shots beyond 50 yards this season, added a 32-yarder in the fourth quarter and a 31-yarder in the first quarter.

The Eagles had the Linc under control, from the moment the public address announcer somewhat savored his command with “Welcome back to the Eagles lineup, Jalen Huuurts” to the recovered fumble moments later.

Green Bay’s Keisean Nixon had the ball knocked loose by Oren Burks and Jeremiah Trotter Jr. recovered it at the Green Bay 28. Hurts needed just three plays to find Jahan Dotson for an 11-yard touchdown.

Darius Slay went over his shoulder to the cornerback to catch the ball like an elite receiver for an interception, and All-Pro linebacker Zack Baun provided the Eagles’ second score. The Eagles didn’t score on those picks, but they kept the Packers off the board.

“They have good players,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said of the Eagles’ defense. “Even when we played the fast game, they were on the ball too often, coming downhill and hitting us in the back. The bottom line is that they played better than us.”

Brandon McManus, who had previously missed 38 yards, scored from 26 yards to make it 10-3 at halftime.

Hurts put any immediate questions about his health to rest when he completed his first six passes for 39 yards, including the touchdown to Dotson. Then he missed his next seven at half-time. It wasn’t until the end of the third quarter that he completed another pass and then scored seven of his last eight total, including the Goedert TD catch.

“I don’t think we had the play we wanted on offense,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. “Jalen has done a lot of good things. Jalen is a winner. He wins. Nobody can deny that.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.