Attention NFL general managers and college scouts: Don’t draft Travis Hunter if you don’t plan to play him on both sides of the ball in 2025.
At least that’s what the two-way star told Caroline Fenton from Yahoo! Sports this week when asked what he’d say to people who tell him he can’t play both wide receiver and cornerback at the next level.
“I’m just going to continue to prove them wrong,” said Hunter, currently the No. 3 overall prospect ranked by The Athletic’s Dane Brugler. “It’s a lot of haters. Even the top dogs are hating on me.”
Hunter’s current head coach at Colorado, Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, did it at the NFL level. Primarily a cornerback, Sanders got his most snaps as a wide receiver in 1996. A pair of Super Bowl champions, William “The Refrigerator” Perry and Troy Brown, have done it. Most recently, Baltimore’s Patrick Ricard played both fullback and defensive line in 2017.
Playing on both sides of the ball isn’t unprecedented in the modern NFL. But then again, Hunter is an unprecedented talent.
“I want to prove them wrong more than I want to prove myself right,” he said.
Hunter, Sanders and the CU Buffs (2-1) open their Big 12 schedule Saturday (8 p.m. ET, FOX) at home against Baylor. Expect the Colorado athletic media relations department to issue more credentials for NFL teams.