Travis Hunter’s Draft projection makes no sense

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And honestly I think this "both sides" fantasy shyt is hurting his development. This isn't HS or college. These are grown men with elite physical skills...you're not gonna be able to play on both sides effectively across a 17 game season lol. And the danger for Travis is that IF he ends up under performing on both sides this season, you can bet your ass the coaches are gonna dead that experiment next year.

First round receivers who don't hit certain metrics don't last long. Only a few guys like that end up being well on the team that drafted them. Jameson Williams comes to mind, and he had a super late season ACL injury in college so that first year and a half was basically a mulligan. Flip side Xavier Legette got people on his ass right now, and he's only in year two.

And a lot of that is on Travis and Deion. Travis for being goofy and being so steadfast on it, and prime for allowing it and killing his development.

I don’t think people realize what Prime did. In any other timeline Travis goes to Bama/Georgia/LSU/OSU with other dogs with just as much nfl prospects, so he woulda had to pick a side by sophomore year and he would have developed and been a stud pause. Especially at WR those schools hardly ever miss on 5 stars.

But bc Deion had this lil thing Travis bought in and now he’s underdeveloped at least on offense.
 

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And a lot of that is on Travis and Deion. Travis for being goofy and being so steadfast on it, and prime for allowing it and killing his development.

I don’t think people realize what Prime did. In any other timeline Travis goes to Bama/Georgia/LSU/OSU with other dogs with just as much nfl prospects, so he woulda had to pick a side by sophomore year and he would have developed and been a stud pause. Especially at WR those schools hardly ever miss on 5 stars.

But bc Deion had this lil thing Travis bought in and now he’s underdeveloped at least on offense.

He won the Heisman, dawg. And was the 2nd pick

Prime literally put him in the best position for success
 

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coach claimed there was a personal reason "in house" why trav didnt play defense the 2nd half. Any idea what it is?

When I was listening to Liam’s presser he said that he expected the 9ners to be run heavy, so with Travis being so small, they thought it would be better to keep him off the field so he wouldn’t get targeted in the running game.
 
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And a lot of that is on Travis and Deion. Travis for being goofy and being so steadfast on it, and prime for allowing it and killing his development.

I don’t think people realize what Prime did. In any other timeline Travis goes to Bama/Georgia/LSU/OSU with other dogs with just as much nfl prospects, so he woulda had to pick a side by sophomore year and he would have developed and been a stud pause. Especially at WR those schools hardly ever miss on 5 stars.

But bc Deion had this lil thing Travis bought in and now he’s underdeveloped at least on offense.


He’d also be 10-15lbs heavier with muscle.
 
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They should let Travis focus on being an elite CB.

Get to at least Pro Bowl, borderline All-Pro level. At that point he may be too valuable to run out at WR, but you can at least create special packages for him.

He's a great athlete but not a freak. Even Prime mostly played DB and only got a few snaps here and there on offense. He played a lot of WR for Dallas in 1996 when Irvin was out a few games....but this was when Prime was 8 years in the league. Lotta nuance to playing WR and it's hard to learn if you're playing both ways.
 

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Only 4 games into his rookie year trying to do something unprecedented. Any conversation about him at this point is very premature. The conversation should start and end at “they’re still trying to figure it out”

And it’s Jacksonville. They’re still trying to figure out Trevor Lawrence and just figured it out with Travon Walker and Travis Etienne. Something about those Tr names….
 
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