Jaguars Trade Up for Travis Hunter – DUVAL!!
The Jacksonville Jaguars just made one of the biggest trades in NFL history.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have officially moved up to No. 2 with the Cleveland Browns, giving them the once in a lifetime chance to select Colorado wide receiver and cornerback Travis Hunter.
2024 Heisman Trophy Winner, Hunter has been built and praised as the top cornerback and wide receiver in the draft class since the process started. A one-of-a-kind athlete who has shown the uncanny ability to play a full-time role on both sides of the ball, Hunter is the jewel of the draft class.
The Jaguars have now added Hunter to an offense that also features 2024 first-round wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr., who finished 2024 as one of the most productive wide receivers in all of football. With those two now connected at the hip, quarterback Trevor Lawrence has two potentially elite wide receivers to grow and develop with.
The Jaguars made a massive move with the Browns to trade up to No. 2 to select Hunter, giving the Jaguars a chance to make the biggest splash of the draft. The Jaguars gave up a bounty and moved up from No. 5, giving up the No. 5 pick, the No. 36 pick, the No. 126 pick, and a first-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.
The trade is a huge investment by the Jaguars, who have promised to be bold and out of the box under new general manager James Gladstone, who comes from the Los Angeles Rams organization and head coach Liam Coen. This trade is certainly that.
“I think you have to be fluid as an organization,” Coen told Brent Martineau on the Brent & Austen Show at the annual league meeting.
Embed from Getty Images“Because of his diversity, what he can do, the amount of snaps he plays. He’s going to play both sides of the ball and that has to be an organizational buy-in from the coaches, the strength staff, the athletic training, sports performance, everybody has to be involved, as well as the coaches, right?
“And having patience with each side of ball, because you really don’t want to kind of put him in a box. You really just want to, ‘Hey, what does he come in and do the best?’ You’re going to be able to let him do both, so you’re going to find out what he’s best at and then, ‘Hey, let’s mold things to that and be fluid for those conversations.’”
And…
Shedeur Sanders Not Selected in Opening Round – The Shedeur slide is real.
Shedeur Sanders is still on the board following the first round of the NFL draft.
The New York Giants passed on the former Colorado star quarterback twice, including with the No. 3 pick Thursday night, when they drafted Abdul Carter out of Penn State. Las Vegas (at No. 6), the New York Jets (No. 7), New Orleans (No. 9) and Pittsburgh (No. 21) also said no thanks to Sanders, and that is four teams definitely in need of a franchise quarterback.
How far will Sanders fall now?
He will be on the board and available when the second round begins Friday with quarterback-needy Cleveland on the clock. The Browns hold two of the first four picks in the round.
“We all didn’t expect this of course, but I feel like with God, anything’s possible, everything’s possible,” Sanders said in a video posted on social media from Texas on Thursday night. “I don’t think this happened for no reason. All this is, of course, fuel to the fire. Under no circumstance we all know this shouldn’t have happened, but we understand we’re on to bigger and better things. Tomorrow’s the day. We’re going to be happy regardless.”
The Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year and the son of Hall of Fame cornerback and Colorado coach Deion ‘Prime Time’ Sanders, Shedeur was among the most talked about and debated prospects entering the draft. He also is a unique prospect in terms of his huge celebrity status and personality, matched only by his immense confidence.
Whether any of those factors played a defining role in his precipitous fall cannot and most likely never be known, but Sanders has long acknowledged that he is not your typical garden-variety prospect.
“You think I’m worried about what critics say or what people have to say,” he said during the NFL scouting combine in February. “You know who my dad is? They hate on him, too.”
There was some speculation a team would trade into the bottom half of the first round and grab Sanders. But there were no takers.
