Travis Hunter increases the rare risk reward scenario for teams

The doubling of its number of snapshots doubles his risk “exposure” and his potential for big games.

Every NFL team that Travis Hunter selects in the NFL design this month has an unusual puzzle that you can solve immediately:

What exactly do you do with him? Do you seriously consider that he has almost every single snap played on the offensive and defense?

He wants that. And he did that in college in Colorado.

However, this is the NFL in which old norms die hard and unnecessary risks.

Will an NFL team really increase the risk of injury when investing $ 40 million by letting it play, so many games and doing what other NFL players almost never do?

“This is my fear … that you don’t know what to do with him in the National Football League,” said the former NFL quartersback Kordell Stewart compared to USA Today Sports. “You saw what I went through.”

Hunter, a cornerback/recipient, will probably be a top five draft on April 24th. All teams with top five picks have announced that they were open to Hunter’s proposal to a certain extent, even if they are not completely convinced. The greater question is whether the potential payment is worth the risk – and whether Hunter is the very rare player who can destroy old ideas about what is possible.

Here is the reason why teams could resist his request, which teams have said so far and why Hunter could even get his wish.

Travis Hunter wants “all” to play the snapshots

Recently asked how many snapshots he would like to play in the NFL, Hunter replied: “Everyone if they give me a chance.”

However, this does not happen in the NFL. It was also not done in college when Colorado coach Deion Sanders had the vision of getting rid of Hunter. “Most coaches in College football will not allow it … because they cannot fathom,” said Sanders in December.

The more traditional NFL will sell even more difficult for Hunter. In mid -20s^TH Century, Philadelphia Eagles Center/LineBacker Chuck Bednarik, played full-time in both directions and even played every piece in the NFC championship game from 1960. But since then full-time two-way players have been practically extinct, apart from an occasional part-time injury with games in both directions.

It is rare for a certain reason. NFL teams can afford to pay players to only concentrate on one side of the ball. A convincing case must be done why there should be an exception.

“It’s best of the best and you say are you the best in two positions?” asked the former general manager of Buffalo Bills, Doug Whaley.

“How do you protect this investment?”

When a player plays both sides, it also loads unnecessary tiredness for the player and worse.

“Doubled the number of snapshots doubles the exposure of injuries,” said Richard Giller, a renowned lawyer for the recovery of sports insurance. “It’s a pretty easy thing. The problem will then protect this investment?”

Giller recommends the team who designs him temporary overall insurance for disabilities to coincide for injuries.

The self requires a unique risk calculation because Hunter’s proposal is so unusual.

Last season in Colorado, he headed the big college football with 1,483 games – 714 on the offensive, 748 in defense and 21 in special teams as well as 65 others who were called back due to punishment, according to CU. Since then he has been preparing for the draft and will soon join a team to prepare for a regular season with 17 games in the NFL. This is not a big break for a top -class player who measures 6 feet and 188 pounds.

With this speed: “How long can this type take?” asked Whaley, who recently worked in the player in the player in the player in the player.

But what if Hunter is really the best cornerback in your team and one of your top nacks?

And what if his two-way game could be combined with his big smile to make him the kind of beloved generational superstar who have not seen some NFL cities in decades?

“Find out”

Kordell Stewart, a former quarterback in Colorado, has seen something like this before. After he was collapsed by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1995, he did not fit into the traditional NFL shape of a quarterback, which at that time looked like a white, drop-back passerby.

So they moved him around – put him on quarterback, recipient, ran back and even a little bit. In contrast to Hunter, Stewart did not play a defense and was able to take a break when the crime was off the field. At the same time, he helped the NFL to see what was not only possible, but also advantageous. He was a common sight of his time as a black NFL quarters back with mobility.

“In no case was it possible that I could catch the ball so well and play quarterback,” said Stewart about the NFL, which thought at the time.

Stewart told Hunter’s future in a conversation with USA Today Sports in December, just before Hunter won the Heisman Trophy.

“There is no other player like him,” said Stewart. “It doesn’t exist. I don’t care. Just let him alone. Bring him in and play it. Find it out.”

The most recently decorated college player in a single season

Stewart, appreciated Hunter is better than the second and third recipients of most NFL teams and better than the majority of the “Lockdown” cornerback of the league.

“If you look at the game and how traditionally it is in the sense, like coaching coaches … I hope he finds a trainer who is as transparent as possible to say:” We will use this talent on our soccer field to win, “said Stewart.

Deion Sanders saw this potential after playing in both directions to a lower extent in the NFL. “He allowed him to be Travis Hunter,” said Stewart.

And then Hunter became the most decorated player in college football story for a single season with eight big college football awards.

Will NFL teams see the same potential?

Before the NFL design, the teams generally do not tend to share their true feelings about a view. Some still gave a look at what they thought about Hunter’s wishes.

∎ Jacksonville Jaguar’s head coach Liam Coen recently said with Action Sports Jax that the team, who selects Hunter, must be “fluent” and explained why it would need a small village to fulfill Hunter’s wish. “Patience” among the coaches could also be necessary if the tensions over the services of Hunter rise.

“This must be an organizational buy-in from the coaches, the power staff, sporting training and sports performance,” said Coen. “Everyone has to be both involved, as well as the coaches … in patience with every side of the ball because they really don’t want to put him in a box.”

∎ The Jaguars have the No. 5 selection behind the Tennessee Titans on No. 1, Cleveland Browns to No. 2, New York Giants on No. 3 and New England Patriots to No. 4.

Patriots trainer Mike Vrabel recently seemed to open the brakes on the idea.

“We have never seen a player, they know,” Vrabel told reporters. “I think there are some things he can improve by probably concentrating … only on one position, but never use restrictions for travis or a player.”

∎ Some teams also want to concentrate on one side of the ball, but differs from which. Brian Callahan, head coach of Titans, said that it was “very realistic” Hunter could play in both directions, but said that they would start at Cornerback before they sometimes work at receiver.

∎ In contrast, the browns first see him mainly as a recipient, but according to General Manager Andrew Berry, it is a “unicorn” that could both do at a high level.

“With regard to Travis Hunter, Cornerback or recipient, the answer is the answer,” said Berry at NFL Scouting Combine this year.

How does Travis Hunter see it?

Even if Hunter regularly plays in both directions, it will not open the locks so that players do what he does.

“There are not enough people who have this ability,” said Whaley.

As Sanders said of Hunter: “He is.” And that is a unicorn moment. Will an NFL team use it properly?

Sanders and Bo Jackson are sports icons because they played professional and baseball at the highest level. Hunter could achieve the same status in an NFL city if he plays in both directions in the highest football.

He has wanted this for a long time and has expected some setbacks from NFL teams.

“Yes, because it has never been done, so I understand that,” said Hunter Reporter at the end of last year. “You don’t want me to be a high risk.

However, he does not think about risks. He thinks about reward.

“I think I can do it,” he said. “Nobody stopped me from doing it.”

He has recently been asked how he wants NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to announce his job title when he was designed. Wide receiver or defender?

“He says better broad recipient and DB,” said Hunter.

Follow Reporter Brent Schrotenboer @crotenboer. E -mail: [email protected]

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Travis Hunter increases the rare risk reward scenario for teams

ByAmelia Journalton

The doubling of its number of snapshots doubles his risk “exposure” and his potential for big games.

Travis Hunter wants “all” to play the snapshots

“How do you protect this investment?”

“Find out”

The most recently decorated college player in a single season

Will NFL teams see the same potential?

How does Travis Hunter see it?

By Amelia Journalton

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