“I wouldn’t say he’s behind,” Coen said in his Wednesday press conference when asked about Hunter. “I think we can probably do a better job of helping him in some ways. We had a great talk with Trav after this past game in terms of just man, like, alright, how can we help you and [where can we] put you, because what is he learning? It’s a lot. So, we’ve got to, I think, be a little bit more diligent in terms of putting him in positions to maybe not have to do as many moving parts so that we can just let him go play.
“You saw he catches the out cut the other day and makes multiple people miss, so that’s what we’re trying to continue to push, and that’s got to be on us as well. Yeah, he has a hand in it for sure, absolutely, but I do think we can help him more.”
“I don’t think it’s fair right now to say, ‘hey dude, go learn Z [receiver], and X, and 12, and this and that,” Coen said. “It’s like, man, we’ve got to make sure he can really go and execute what we’re asking him to do first and foremost, which is play F and play corner.
“So, I think as we go and as he goes, I’ve got to believe that it’ll continue to do this [upwards motion].”
Through three weeks, Jaguars No. 2 overall pick Travis Hunter has been on the field for 59 percent of the team’s offensive snaps and 47 percent of defensive snaps.
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