Hunter Locks It Down: Training Camp Day 4 highlights & observations

Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas Jr highlighted each side of the ball in Sunday’s practice, with both players having bounce back days from Friday’s training camp practice.

The after a dominant Friday practice for the Jacksonville Jaguars defense, the offense got back to basics on Sunday with a bounce back performance from the receiving core. Here are our top highlights and observations from Day 4 of Jaguars’ training camp at the Miller Electric Center practice fields.

Notes from practice

• CB Jourdan Lewis continues to stack up back to back to back performances with another quality day in coverage. Today’s play of the day nominee was a diving pass breakup (pbu) on a Nick Mullens attempt to Austin Trammel. He ended the day with 2-3 pbus.
• CB Travis Hunter completed his second consecutive day on defense, with a dominant day in coverage. Hunter would end the day with three total pass breakups, two of which were near interceptions.

He followed this near-interception with a diving endzone pass breakup from Lawrence intended for Brian Thomas Jr. With two near-interceptions today, it just seems that Hunter is a magnet for the football, finding him wherever he is.

• All eyes remain on the safety position, with the defense continuing to rotate the safety position opposite of S Eric Murray on a day by day basis.
• WR Joshua Cephus had himself a rebound day with multiple intermediate catches. The WR5 competition continues to be a day by day battle between Cephus and Eli Pancol. Pancol had a quiet day, with his notable contribution of the day being a catch that was stripped away by Deantre Prince for a fumble. Additionally, Austin Trammell continues to make a few splash plays in the short and intermediate zones, to potentially make a push into this completion, where special teams play may weigh heavily.
• QB Trevor Lawrence had another solid day, with only 1-2 uncatchable balls identified on the day, per my count. The offense, however, did have one miscommunication on the day.

Additionally, backup QB Nick Mullens was also pretty accurate in this one.

• WR Brian Thomas Jr was his normal WR1 self in today’s practice with a highlight, back of the endzone, contested touchdown from Lawrence in the two-minute period. He also brought in a long catch down the middle of the field in the 7-on-7 period to confirm the bounce back day. He would later add two additional shorter catches to today’s resume, with room to run on both.

• RB LeQuint Allen dropped a 7-on-7 check down from Trevor Lawrence, his first drop that I can recall in camp. As a note, some media members saw this play as more of a fumble after the catch. However, it may be labeled, it was the first mistake we’ve seen from the sure-handed back out of Syracuse.

• K Cam Little went 4/4 on field goals in the kicking period, making the longest from around 45-yards out. He made 5/5 during...