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Travis Hunter played on both offense and defense in practice during his two-year college football career at Colorado. Liam Coen is misinformed.
The first-year head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars continues to lie about the reigning Heisman Trophy winner.
To be fair, I do not think Coen means to be spreading untrue information about his star player’s college football career. I just don’t understand why nobody has informed him directly of the truth.
Hunter originally committed to play defensive back at Florida State University. He was going to be a corner and only a corner in Tallahassee.
However, the No. 1 recruit in the country sent shockwaves across college football and flipped his commitment to Jackson State at the last second to play for Deion Sanders.
Sanders allowed Hunter to play both ways. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound unicorn caught 18 passes for 190 yards and four touchdowns with 19 total tackles, four pass deflections and two interceptions as a freshman with the Tigers. He later recorded 153 catches for ~2,000 yards and 15 touchdowns with 66 total tackles, 16 pass deflections and seven interceptions in two years at Colorado.
Nobody in college football history (at least in the modern era) did what Hunter did in Boulder. Rarely did he come off of the field. His snap counts rarely finished below 100 per game.
Thus, it was a big conversation when he was drafted by the Jaguars at No. 2 overall. Where was Travis Hunter going to play?
The first few games of Hunter’s professional career saw him play mostly on defense. Those numbers have since evened out and actually swung in the opposite direction over the weekend.
Hunter played 39 snaps on offense and 25 snaps on defense against the Kansas City Chiefs. His totals for the year now look like this:
Pretty impressive!
As cool as it is to see Travis Hunter ball out on both offense and defense, there is one ongoing narrative that must be debunked. He practiced both positions equally at Colorado. More or less.
It started with Eli Manning on Monday night, who only repeated what Liam Coen said. Hunter supposedly did not practice on offense with the Buffaloes so he would just go out and wing it.
