{"id":273822,"date":"2026-05-16T22:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273822\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:49:09","slug":"deion-sanders-calls-out-jacksonville-jaguars-about-travis-hunter-and-he-might-not-be-totally-off-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273822\/","title":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders calls out Jacksonville Jaguars about Travis Hunter, and he might not be totally off base"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hall of Famer certainly got the most out of Travis Hunter with the Colorado Buffaloes. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDec 14, 2024; New York, NY, USA; Colorado Buffaloes wide receiver\/cornerback Travis Hunter with head coach Deion Sanders after winning the 2024 Heisman Trophy.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTodd Van Emst\/Heisman Trust via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Jacksonville Jaguars made the move of the 2025 NFL Draft, sending a significant haul of draft picks to the Cleveland Browns to move up to second and draft Colorado WR\/CB Travis Hunter<\/a>. <\/p>\n

As such, the Jaguars are tied to Hunter for the foreseeable future, and his success will define whether general manager James Gladstone\u2019s first major move was worth it. <\/p>\n

As aggressive as the Jaguars were to go up and get him, they clearly did their homework and liked what they saw on film and in person sufficient to make such an investment in him. <\/p>\n

But one notable person says the Jaguars didn\u2019t go quite far enough in their preliminary evaluations of Hunter: his former head coach. <\/p>\n

Deion Sanders went on \u201cThe Barbershop\u201d show with Garrett Bush<\/a>, and he said no one from Jacksonville reached out to him to gain any insight or information on Hunter. And it sounds like it struck a nerve with him. <\/p>\n

Deion Sanders says Jacksonville never reached out to him about Travis Hunter<\/p>\n

\u201cEven a guy like Travis Hunter, being drafted to Jacksonville, and\u00a0I\u2019ve had him for the last three (years),\u201d Deion said. \u201cDon\u2019t you think you would want to talk to me to let me know, to ask me, what gets him going and what backs him off and what, like, you wouldn\u2019t want to know that?\u201d<\/p>\n

To be clear, I think Hunter\u2019s tape and his play on the field speaks for itself. He\u2019s a unique player with a ceiling that\u2019s sky high. <\/p>\n

But in that same vein, as he is a unique player, wouldn\u2019t you want to know every single thing about him? As far as any background\/inside information about how he handled being a two-way player? <\/p>\n

Again, I\u2019m not saying the Jaguars didn\u2019t do their homework. They did, and they liked what they saw. But if they didn\u2019t pick up the phone and at least call Sanders to get his take on Hunter the player and ask questions along the lines of what he\u2019s talking about (what gets him going, backs him off, etc.), then that\u2019s a bit confusing in retrospect. <\/p>\n

In any event, phone call or not, getting the most out of Hunter after an injury-shortened decent first season will be a priority for the Jaguars in 2026. <\/p>\n

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Jacksonville Jaguars News<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJaguars schedule release: Game-by-game predictions as Jacksonville looks to prove they\u2019re a new factor in the AFC\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

The Jacksonville Jaguars\u2019 path to repeat as AFC South champions has been laid out, so let\u2019s take a swing at how it might go for them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hall of Famer certainly got the most out of Travis Hunter with the Colorado Buffaloes. Dec 14,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36568,117026,116,118,121,6621,117,5016],"class_list":["post-273822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-colorado-buffaloes","tag-deion-sanders","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-news","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-travis-hunter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}