Talent Tracker: Travis Hunter should be No. 1 pick in 2025 NFL Draft, why Auburn still needs portal QB

Your weekly serving of college football roster acquisition thoughts — recruiting, transfer portal, you name it — from 247Sports Director of Scouting Andrew Ivins. 

Why would anybody go before Travis Hunter in NFL Draft?

It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s Travis Hunter.

This past weekend, I passed on the quad-box view from my couch and drove to UCF to watch the Knights take on Colorado. I told myself I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about after the game, but deep down I knew that was a lie. Travis Hunter was going to be the story because Travis Hunter has always been the story. He’s Superman. 

Back in March of 2021, I got a chance to scout Hunter for the first time up close and in person at a 7-on-7 tournament outside Atlanta. I was simply in awe. So much so that I quickly filed a story from an Uber proclaiming I thought Hunter had the potential to go down as an “all-time prospect” — you can read that here. Talk about underselling a player who might end up being selected No. 1 overall in the 2025 NFL Draft. To me he feels like the obvious pick over a few questionable quarterbacks or front-seven prospects. 

By now, most of America has seen Hunter play, and it doesn’t take a trained eye to know he’s a one-in-a-million talent who can do things others simply can’t. While there’s no question Hunter is special, there is no shortage of debate in the personnel world as to whether his ceiling is highest as a cornerback or a wide receiver on Sundays.

Here’s a thought: It doesn’t matter.

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Author : Andrew Ivins

Publish date : 2024-10-03 17:08:07

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