Travis Hunter’s role with Jaguars: Here’s how the team will use the two-way star the rest of the season
One of the biggest questions before the 2025 NFL season was the way in which the two -lane star of Jacksonville Jaguars Travis Hunter would be used on both sides of football. The overall choice n ° 2 of the NFL 2025 draft did not play more than 68.3% of the shots in attack or in defense for Jacksonville, according to Pro Football Reference, which is a spectacular decrease in its use in Colorado last season.
The jaguars have adopted an approach to the patient to find a role for one of the most unique prospects for a recent memory, which can play on both sides of the ball. Even if the potential injuries appear in the large receiver or the corner, the head coach of the Jaguars Liam Coen does not expect his role radically changing immediately.
“Right now, it is a position in attack and a defense position,” said Coen on Wednesday. “Now that doesn’t really change completely. It’s just the next guy who has to go and adapt to play” Z “, which happened in the game. So I don’t think so I don’t think [injuries] change a lot.
“I don’t think it’s just to go and say:” Hey guy, will learn Z and X and 12 and that and that. “We have to make sure that he can go perform what we ask him to do and above all, who is to play” F “and corner”.
Travis Hunter’s instant percentages this season
| 1 | 63.6% | 9.4% | 8 | 6 | 33 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 59.2% | 62.3% | 6 | 3 | 22 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 52.9% | 68.3% | 2 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 0 |
| Total | 59% | 47% | 16 | 10 | 76 | 9 | 1 |
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Hunter captured 10 passes for 76 yards in attack, while recording nine plated with a break from passing in defense. His only taken during the victory of Jacksonville 17-10 against Houston’s Texans in week 3 was a take of 21 yards – which marked the longest reception of his young NFL career.
“I wouldn’t say he’s late,” said Coen. “I think we can probably do a better job to help him in some respects. We had an excellent conversation with Trav after this last match, in terms of man like, well,” how can we help you and put you? “Because guys, then, what does he learn?
Coen’s comments come Only a few days after the former Hunter coach in Colorado, Deion Sanders, said on a recent New summits Podcast episode that the Jaguars “did not use it enough”.
“They don’t use it enough,” said Sanders. “I saw him with my own eyes on a daily basis for three consecutive years, so I know what he is capable of, and I know how you need to take care of him. He never trains on Tuesday. He trains on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. He was ready to play a hundred and a few shots on Saturday, so you don’t need to use it on Tuesday or a Monday. You don’t use it like that.”
Jared Dubin of CBS Sports certainly agrees with Deion, writing earlier this week that The use of Hunter raises questions about what the Jaguars have abandoned to write it. Jacksonville made choices n ° 5, 36 and 126, as well as a selection of first round in 2026, to mount three places to take Hunter. (The team also received the 104th and 200th choices in total in the successful agreement.)
Hunter is only three weeks before his career, after all. Jaguars could simply progress it to play more often rather than having it for a complete complement of shots right away. And it would probably be an intelligent thing. You don’t want to tax it physically too much right away and break it down until you even have the chance to use it in the way it should be used.
But jags need to find better ways to get more from him. Defensive use makes sense. Hunter was an outdoor corner at university and was used in this way in the pros, especially for the filling of the Jarrian Jones injured as a left corner.
But offensive use is not conducive to making the most of his skills, even if you consider that he was more brutal as a receiver than as a defensive back leaving the university. You must be able to stretch the field vertically from time to time instead of using it only around the melee line. Otherwise, the defenses will simply sit on short stuff and even start withdraw some of his Run-After opportunities. Since this was the only way he has made positive contributions to the attack to date, it would obviously not be ideal if these things disappear.
The hunter and the jaguars (2-1) face the 49ers of San Francisco (3-0) on the road Sunday in week 4.
