Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter goes No 2 to Jaguars after blockbuster trade

The two-way superstar Travis Hunter is the fig 2 prime successful the NFL Draft.

The Jacksonville Jaguars selected Hunter connected Thursday nighttime aft trading up to the No. 2 wide prime with the Cleveland Browns. Jacksonville gave up the No. 5 wide pick, their 2nd and fourth-round prime this year, and their first-round prime adjacent year, to determination up and instrumentality Hunter.

Hunter is expected to prima connected some sides of the ball, arsenic helium did successful assemblage for the University of Colorado. 

Hunter averaged implicit 100 snaps per crippled successful his last play with Colorado amid his quest to crook the programme around, alongside Shedeur and Deion Sanders.

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Colorado Buffaloes wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter poses for a photograph aft winning the Heisman Trophy grant during the 2024 Heisman Trophy Presentation. (Lucas Boland-Imagn Images)

But he's not conscionable a two-way subordinate - he's a two-way superstar.

As a wide receiver, Hunter had 92 catches for 1,152 yards and 14 full touchdowns. Hunter won the Biletnikoff Award arsenic the nation’s apical wide receiver.

Hunter besides won the Bednarik Award arsenic the nation’s champion antiaircraft player, becoming the archetypal subordinate ever to triumph some the Bednarik and Biletnikoff.

As a corner, Hunter had 31 tackles, 11 walk deflections and 4 interceptions, anchoring Colorado’s defense.

Hunter and backmost Shedeur Sanders led Colorado to a 9-3 record, and the squad fell conscionable abbreviated of making the Big 12 title game.

Hunter was capable to unrecorded retired his NFL Draft imagination with his father, who was granted support to question to Green Bay contempt being sentenced to a twelvemonth of location confinement.

Cornerback Travis Hunter #12 of the Colorado Buffaloes hits the Heisman Pose aft making an interception during the crippled against the UCF Knights astatine FBC Mortgage Stadium connected September 28, 2024 successful Orlando, Florida.  (Don Juan Moore/Getty Images)

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Hunter volition hop into a antiaircraft secondary successful Jacksonville alongside Tyson Campbell and Darnell Savage arsenic a cornerback. On offense, Hunter volition besides look to lend arsenic a wide receiver alongside Brian Thomas Jr. for backmost Trevor Lawrence.

Colorado wide receiver Travis Hunter gestures aft pulling successful a walk for a archetypal down successful the 2nd fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Oklahoma State, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024, successful Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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However, immoderate person argued that Hunter should prioritize playing cornerback, and permission playing wide receiver arsenic much of an afterthought. 

Former NFL wide receiver and three-time Super Bowl champion Ed McCaffrey antecedently told Fox News Digital that Hunter is much invaluable arsenic a cornerback, and doesn't expect Hunter to play each down connected discourtesy and defence successful the pros, which Hunter often did successful college. 

"Personally… I deliberation close present helium provides greater worth astatine the cornerback position, I bash not spot immoderate script wherever helium doesn't permission the tract successful the NFL, I don't deliberation that's possible. Maybe for a crippled oregon erstwhile successful a portion you could play a important fig of snaps successful the NFL, but long-term, I don't deliberation you tin clasp up," McCaffrey said. 

"It's antithetic successful assemblage erstwhile you're importantly amended and much physically talented than the guys you're going up against. When you get to the NFL, determination isn't arsenic overmuch of a spread successful talent." 

Hunter himself has rejected the thought of lone playing 1 presumption successful the NFL. 

The forthcoming rookie said helium would "never play shot again" if helium was told by coaches to lone absorption connected playing either cornerback oregon wide receiver. 

"It's ne'er playing shot again," Hunter antecedently told CBS Sports. "Because I've been doing it my full life, and I emotion being connected the shot field. I consciousness similar I could predominate connected each broadside of the ball, truthful I truly bask doing it."

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