Travis Hunter — Week 1: One Carry, One Catch, One Tackle
2026 NFL Season · Half-PPR Scoring · Monday, Sep 14
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.
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Travis Hunter's one target of the day came with 10 39 left in the first half, second and 10 at the Cleveland 38, Jacksonville up 14 to nothing: Trevor Lawrence short left, three yards behind the line, and Hunter took it eight yards to the 30, Mason Graham on the tackle. Worth +0.3 expected points added — expected points added is what a play was worth given down, distance and field position. It set up third and two, Chris Rodriguez was stopped a yard short, and Cameron Little kicked a 47-yard field goal.
The carry had come almost three minutes earlier on the same drive: first and 10 at the Jacksonville 39, 13 30 left in the half, around right end for three yards, Sam Williams and Denzel Ward on the stop. One carry, three yards; one target, one catch, eight yards; no touchdowns; 11 yards on two touches, both between the thirties on a field-goal drive. The other line in the play-by-play with his name on it is a tackle: third quarter, 11 20 left, Deshaun Watson short right to KC Concepcion for four yards, Hunter credited with bringing him down at the Jacksonville 20. He turns up in the play-by-play on both sides of the ball.
Where he sat among the receivers: one of 10 Jaguars thrown to, and one of seven who carried the ball. Parker Washington had six targets, Brenton Strange and Brian Thomas three, Jakobi Meyers and Josh Cameron two, and Hunter one, the same as Bhayshul Tuten, Nate Boerkircher, Ameer Abdullah and Quintin Morris. Jacksonville had 19 pass plays before halftime and five after; both of Hunter's touches came in the first-half share.
Back in June the preview put Hunter on the watchlist: cheap, but the price was buying a receiving role Jacksonville had deprioritized twice, and, by the preview's account, on a knee that had not practiced since the previous October. Sunday answers the knee part in the only way the data can — he played, on both sides of the ball — and answers the role part the way the preview feared: two offensive touches. One game cannot say whether the receiving role grows, and a game the Jaguars led by 24 at halftime is a strange one to measure it in. Jacksonville is at the Broncos on Sunday the twentieth. The number to watch is targets, not snaps.
_Data via nflverse._
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