Jacksonville Jaguars’ rookie Travis Hunter often is the most tantalizing participant taken in final month’s draft.
With the flexibility to play each side of the ball, the previous Heisman Trophy winner is really a unicorn within the trendy NFL panorama.
That being stated, ESPN’s Mike Clay took a stab at what Hunter might present the Jaguars on each side of the ball in his yearly predictions for every NFL squad.
For Hunter, Clay thinks the rook will haul in 73 balls on 110 targets for a grand whole of 884 yards. That manufacturing can also be coupled with 5 receiving touchdowns and 25 whole dashing yards for good measure.
On protection, Clay thinks Hunter will mess around 322 snaps, good for fourth on the staff. These snaps may equate to numbers someplace within the 25 deal with and 0.6 interception vary.
Clearly Hunter’s projections are far flashier on the offensive facet as head coach Liam Coen stated from day one which Hunter will probably be getting the vast majority of his burn on that facet of that ball to start out with.
Q: What’s your imaginative and prescient for Travis Hunter? Do you see him taking part in extra on offense?
Liam Coen: “We’ll have a plan proper now of [him playing] totally on offense, with him studying the defensive system and practising on the defensive facet of the ball as nicely all through this… pic.twitter.com/juYRrsGXLc
— Scott Barrett (@ScottBarrettDFB) April 25, 2025
Total, Hunter doesn’t venture to have the form of breakout yr that Brian Thomas Jr. had in his rookie season final yr in Clay’s eyes. For what it’s value, Clay tasks Thomas Jr. to have the same yr to his rookie season with 85 catches for 1,177 yards and 6 receiving scores. Parker Washington is the clear WR3 with a projected 457 yards receiving.
Clay isn’t terribly optimistic for the Jags to win a ton of video games within the upcoming yr, projecting the staff to win seven video games, with solely 4 video games whole having a win share over 50%.
Clearly there is no such thing as a telling what the Jags may do that yr, or what Hunter is even able to. There are virtually innumerable quantities of transferring items in terms of what Hunter can do on both facet of the ball.
One factor is for sure, although: Hunter goes to go 100% each likelihood he can. And that may even embody some passing yards that not even Clay may predict.