{"id":712065,"date":"2026-06-18T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712065\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:30:07","slug":"deion-sanders-believes-travis-hunter-should-play-both-ways-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712065\/","title":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders believes Travis Hunter should play both ways, all the time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Colorado coach Deion Sanders <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/deion-sanders-is-disappointed-he-didnt-hear-from-the-jaguars-about-travis-hunter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">expressed disappointment<\/a> that the Jaguars never contacted him regarding former Buffaloes superstar Travis Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>In a more recent interview, the topic came up again regarding whether the Jaguars will pick Deion\u2019s brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.covers.com\/nfl\/exclusive-interview-deion-sanders-on-shedeur-travis-hunter-dallas-cowboys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">They\u2019re not going to ask me<\/a>,\u201d Sanders told D.J. Saddiqi of Covers.com. \u201cI thank God that you\u2019re asking me. The kid won the Heisman Trophy playing both sides of the ball. That\u2019s all I\u2019ve got to say on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deion later said a bit more, on the topic of the player(s) to whom Hunter could be compared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no comparison to what he\u2019s able to produce on the field,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cIt\u2019s no comparison. I can\u2019t say who I would compare him to, because I would be lessening that person. That\u2019s not fair to him or the persons that I\u2019m comparing it to. He\u2019s different, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars made Travis Hunter a part-time two-way player in 2025, taking roughly two-thirds of the offensive snaps in the seven games he played and roughly one-third of the defensive snaps.<\/p>\n<p>A knee injury ended Hunter\u2019s rookie season prematurely, underscoring the durability concerns raised by taking practice and game reps on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Hunter did it \u2014 and did it well \u2014 in college. Doing it in the NFL against the best of the best competition is a very different proposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, Colorado coach Deion Sanders expressed disappointment that the Jaguars never contacted him regarding former Buffaloes superstar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-712065","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\/712065","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=712065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}