Travis Hunter's rookie season ends early as Jaguars announce surgery to repair LCL injury

Travis Hunter's rookie play with the Jacksonville Jaguars has ended early.

The Jaguars announced Tuesday that Hunter volition miss the remainder of the play aft undergoing country to repair the lateral collateral ligament (LCL) successful his close knee.

"Beyond the LCL, determination was nary further harm to the knee, which Hunter injured during signifier connected Oct. 30. The process was performed by Dr. Dan Cooper and Jaguars squad doc Dr. Kevin Kaplan successful Dallas," the squad said successful a statement.

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Travis Hunter of the Jacksonville Jaguars warms up anterior to the crippled against the Seattle Seahawks astatine EverBank Stadium connected Oct. 12, 2025 successful Jacksonville, Florida. (Mike Carlson/Getty Images)

The squad said Hunter "is expected to instrumentality wrong six months to afloat shot activities," which would person him acceptable to commencement the 2026 NFL season.

Unfortunately for Jacksonville, a squad successful the playoff hunt astatine 5-4, it volition beryllium a pugnacious nonaccomplishment for the remainder of the year.

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Hunter was placed connected injured reserve connected Halloween, 1 time aft helium suffered the non-contact wounded astatine practice. The squad had hoped the severity of the wounded wasn’t excessively bad, particularly aft the archetypal MRI showed his ACL was intact.

However, further investigating connected the close genu recovered harm to the LCL, and country was needed to repair it.

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Travis Hunter runs onto the tract earlier an NFL shot crippled against the Kansas City Chiefs, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, successful Jacksonville, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Hunter, the dual-threat who went 2nd wide successful the 2025 NFL Draft, seemed to beryllium getting going successful his last game. As a receiver, helium caught 8 passes for 104 yards with his archetypal NFL touchdown successful the 35-7 nonaccomplishment to the Los Angeles Rams successful London. He tallied 28 catches for 298 yards and 1 touchdown done his rookie season.

When helium was called successful astatine cornerback, Hunter had 15 tackles and 3 passes defended, though helium lone played 36% of the team’s antiaircraft snaps earlier his injury. He was connected the tract for 67% of the team’s violative snaps.

The Jaguars made a commercialized deadline determination to assistance a depleted receiving corps, bringing successful Jakobi Meyers successful a woody with the Las Vegas Raiders. Brian Thomas Jr., who has struggled with drops this season, injured his ankle successful Week 9, portion Dyami Brown is dealing with a enarthrosis injury.

Travis Hunter of the Jacksonville Jaguars celebrates aft an NFL shot crippled against the Kansas City Chiefs astatine EverBank Stadium connected Oct. 6, 2025 successful Jacksonville, Florida. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)

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Jacksonville volition request to conflict done yet different cardinal nonaccomplishment connected its roster, particularly aft a illness connected the roadworthy against the Houston Texans, who scored 26 points successful the 4th fourth to travel from down and bushed their AFC South rival.

The Jaguars volition play big to the surging Los Angeles Chargers connected Sunday.

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