Travis Hunter

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• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Travis Hunter — Week 2: No Targets, Twenty-Two Penalty Yards

  Hunter had no carry and no target; every appearance he makes in the play-by-play is on defense, including a pass breakup on Denver's first third down and four credited tackles. His 22-yard pass-interference penalty with 7:30 left in a tied game set up Jonah Coleman's 3-yard touchdown on the next snap, in a 20–13 loss to the Broncos.

• Week 1Sep 14, 2026

  Travis Hunter — Week 1: One Carry, One Catch, One Tackle

  Hunter touched the ball twice on offense Sunday — a three-yard run around right end on first and ten and an eight-yard catch on second and ten from the Cleveland thirty-eight, both in the second quarter — and is credited in the play-by-play with the tackle on a KC Concepcion catch in the third. Two offensive touches on a day Jacksonville threw to ten different receivers, in a 34–10 win over the Browns.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Travis Hunter Camp Update — August 31: Listed on Both Sides of the 53

  Jacksonville's initial fifty-three carries Travis Hunter in two places: the team's own roster breakdown lists him among the wide receivers and among the cornerbacks. John Oehser writes that Hunter is expected to move permanently into a starting job opposite Montaric Brown, and, in the same piece, that he is expected to play a significant role offensively.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Travis Hunter Camp Update — August 23: Corner First in the Carolina Joint

  In Wednesday's joint practice with the Panthers, Travis Hunter spent most of his team-drill time at cornerback, broke up a pass late in the session, and took limited offensive snaps. The two-way usage keeps reading defense-first, and there is still no snap-count reporting to say otherwise.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Travis Hunter Camp Update — August 16: The Knee Is Back, and It Plays Corner First

  Travis Hunter played both ways in the joint practice with the Saints, getting beaten deep by Chris Olave at corner and catching a red-zone touchdown from backup Nick Mullens at receiver. The knee is healthy; the defense-first read from June is exactly what the field shows.

• 2026 PreviewJul 2, 2026

  Travis Hunter 2026 Season Preview — what repeats, what doesn't

  WATCHLIST — WR80 is cheap, but buys a receiving role Jacksonville has deprioritized twice, on a knee that hasn't practiced since October.

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  Show notes & transcript

  Travis Hunter's own general manager spent January telling anyone who'd listen that the plan is more defense. The fantasy market is still drafting the offense — receiver 80, an A-D-P of one 76 and a half. One of those two positions has to be wrong, and this episode is about which.

  The rookie season, before the knee: seven games, 28 catches on 45 targets, 298 yards, one touchdown — 7.1 Half-PPR points a game in his seven games, and just under 18 percent of Jacksonville's targets while he was out there. 90-seventh among receivers in total points, because the season stopped in October: a non-contact right-knee injury in practice — on the defensive side — then surgery on November eleventh to repair the LCL, with the ACL intact, per NFL.com and ESPN, and a six-month return-to-activity projection he has since run past. He caught 62 percent of his targets before the injury, and Jacksonville went on to win the South at 13 four — he was gone by November.

  One seven-game season is the entire NFL record of the number-two overall pick. We won't pretend that's an arc.

  The pattern beat is short on purpose: there is no cohort for a two-way player, because there hasn't been one — ESPN's January reporting put his rookie usage at 67 percent of offensive snaps and 36 percent on defense, a workload split our library has literally never seen. Year-two receiver patterns require a qualifying rookie season; seven games isn't one. This is the least priceable player in the batch, and saying so plainly is the analysis.

  What's knowable is what the franchise keeps saying. January fourteenth, general manager James Gladstone: expect a, quote, higher emphasis on defense in 20-26 — possibly starting cornerback, per AP and ESPN — and the team's own roster page now lists him at cornerback. The Jakobi Meyers trade and December extension, per ESPN, reduce the offense's reliance on him by design. Liam Coen, in January: I never really look at anybody as like one, two, or three-ish. Meanwhile the knee: he took zero practice reps through OTAs and June minicamp — mental reps and simulator work, per SI — around a receiver room where Brian Thomas Junior chases his rookie form and Parker Washington arrives off a late surge, per the January reporting — and Pro Football Talk's June headline said the team is unsure when he'll be full go, though Coen noted he hit 22.6 miles an hour on a sprint before a June practice, per Yahoo.

  The price: WR80 at one 76 and a half is cheap in absolute terms — that's the trap. It still buys a receiving role his team has now deprioritized twice out loud, attached to a knee that hasn't practiced since October. WR80 assumes an end-of-bench dart — the right genre, priced before the team has said what the dart even is. Our verdict: watchlist. We can't underwrite a snap count the franchise itself won't commit to. The caveat is the talent, and it's a real one: a number-two overall pick with a healed knee and even a partial offensive load could embarrass this price by Halloween — there's just no base rate on players like this, because there are no players like this.

  Watch the first padded practice he takes, and which meeting room he walks out of when camp opens — corner or receiver. Rooms are where snap plans live; the depth chart is just where they're announced. He's one of your guys? This show covers your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.