{"id":45763,"date":"2025-08-05T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45763\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T00:10:08","slug":"jaguars-list-travis-hunter-as-starting-receiver-and-backup-cornerback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45763\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars list Travis Hunter as starting receiver and backup cornerback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Hunter was touted as a generational two-way player, but the Jacksonville Jaguars may prefer to feature his skillset on one particular side of the ball. <\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars listed Hunter as a starting wide receiver and a backup cornerback on the team&#8217;s first depth chart of the season on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter, 22, spent two seasons with the Colorado Buffaloes in 2023-24. He had 153 catches for 1,979 yards and 20 touchdowns. Hunter also finished with seven interceptions, 66 tackles and one forced fumble. <\/p>\n<p>Drafted with the No. 2 pick in the 2025 NFL draft, Hunter is expected to line up on offence opposite of WR Brian Thomas Jr., Jacksonville&#8217;s standout first-round pick in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars hired Liam Coen as head coach in January to improve an offence that ranked 26th in points per game last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Hunter was touted as a generational two-way player, but the Jacksonville Jaguars may prefer to feature his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-45763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}