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Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh doesn’t think there is any way Travis Hunter can play both ways – offense and defense – full time in the NFL. Will someone else?
“It’s gonna be interesting to see how they do it, wherever he goes, but to say that you’re gonna be completely immersed in everything that there is to know on offense and everything there is to know on defense, I don’t know if there’s enough hours in the day for a player to be able to do that, and to have every detail locked down,” John Harbaugh said about Travis Hunter during a press conference on Tuesday.
“But you certainly could do it I would think on one side of the ball and then have some sort of a package on the other side of the ball, which is my guess is how the team will do it, wherever he goes. But I assume we’ll be playing against him, so we’re about to find out how that team does it.”
Travis Hunter, who will have his Colorado Buffaloes’ jersey retired during the team’s spring game on April 19th, disagrees with John Harbaugh’s opinion.
On Tuesday, it was reported that Hunter very clearly wants to play full-time on both offense and defense in the NFL. So much so that he claims that he will never play football again if the team that drafts him doesn’t acquiesce to his desires.
Multiple mock drafts have Travis Hunter going to the Cleveland Browns with the second overall pick. Whether the Browns will let him play full-time both ways is currently unknown.
For whatever it’s worth, Robert Griffin III thinks Travis Hunter is “best when he plays both WR and CB.” Whether Hunter’s body can with stand such a workload – he played 1,484 snaps in the 2024 college season and that was in just 13 games – is certainly up for debate.