The 2025 NFL draft begged as expected, with the Tennessee Titans drawing the Miami Cam Ward Marshal.
Then, everything changed.
While Travis Hunter Jr., the incredible highlight of Colorado and the most recently winner of the Heisman trophy, was the second Thorsday Night selection his landing spot was a big surprise. Instead of the Cleveland Browns standing and taking Hunter to number 2, a player from his general manager compared to Shohei Ohtani, Cleveland executed an exchange with the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Browns moved to number 5, while the Jaguars reached No. 2 to the draft hunter.
On Friday, the team presented Hunter at its facilities, and the new general manager James Gladstone addressed the question of why he was willing to change the number 2 for Hunter.
Your answer is outside Hollywood.
“While we sat here, Travis Hunter is a Jacksonville Jaguar,” Gladstone began. “He does what comes to mind, thinking about the sport of football and really the power of the game itself, is the ability to ignite the belief. Belief in ourselves. Belief in others. He believes in achieving what many can consider impossible.
“Travis Hunter, the incorporation is incorporated.
“He is a strange person. He is a strange player. But he is also a reminder that the limits of the football game were built to be challenged. Therefore, the decision to select it was a real statement.
“A statement on how we plan to move, for what we are, and we want it to be nothing more than him.
“Because when it is, it raises the space around it. From the football field, to the city, to the football game itself.”
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The new chief coach of Hunter, Liam Coen, approached how the team will use Hunter, and pointed out that the team must be “fluid” with the way he will use his new player. But the plan is to use on both sides of football and how they want to “look like what was seen in Colorado.”
Most likely, the Jaguars fans in your life shot Friday morning.
This probable press conference only added fuel to those fires.