{"id":468241,"date":"2026-02-14T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468241\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:06:06","slug":"report-jaguars-plan-to-make-travis-hunter-a-starting-cornerback-part-time-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468241\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Jaguars plan to make Travis Hunter a starting cornerback, part-time receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, Jaguars rookie wide receiver\/cornerback played exactly twice as many snaps on offense as on defense: He was on the field for 324 offensive plays and 162 defensive plays before suffering a season-ending knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>This year, things may be different.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars\u2019 plan is to make Hunter a starting cornerback and play full-time on defense, while only playing part-time at receiver, according to Cameron Wolfe of NFL Network.<\/p>\n<p>That matches what Jaguars General Manager James Gladstone said a month ago, when he indicated that the current makeup of the Jaguars\u2019 roster gave them a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jaguars-still-plan-for-travis-hunter-to-play-on-both-sides-of-the-ball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">greater need at cornerback<\/a>, but that Hunter would continue playing at least some of the time on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Hunter did not have a major impact on either side of the ball: He had 28 catches for 298 yards and one touchdown, while on defense he had 11 solo tackles, three passes defensed and no interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, Jaguars rookie wide receiver\/cornerback played exactly twice as many snaps on offense as on defense: He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-468241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}