Jags coach quizzed on Travis Hunter’s future as a two-way player

The Jacksonville Jaguars suffered a major blow with the news that Travis Hunter will miss the remainder of the 2025 season due to injury.

The two-way star picked up a right knee injury during a team practice session on October 30. He has since undergone surgery to repair the lateral collateral ligament in his right knee and will need around six months to recover.

Hunter has featured as both a wide receiver and a cornerback for Jacksonville this year, playing 67% of the team’s offensive snaps and 36% of the defensive snaps. It’s a heavy workload for the 22-year-old and Jaguars coach Liam Coen has been asked whether he might focus on one aspect of the game going forward.

“I understand there’s a lot of questions about if he’ll remain a two-way player and all those kind of things,” Coen told reporters on Wednesday morning.

“All of that is very premature and at the end of the day, like every player on this roster, he’ll be evaluated at the end of the season and we’ll be able to give him his three better, three best and the things that we need to continue to improve upon and the things we need to build on."

Coen was also asked whether it is realistic to hope that Hunter could one day become both the team’s No. 1 receiver and cornerback. He insisted that good progress had been made during Hunter’s first few months in the NFL and that he expects the young star to be a key player going forward.

“Getting to know the person has obviously been the most important thing and the type of competitor, the way that he learns, the way that he competes, the way that he practices, that stuff that we’ve been able to gain valuable information on and be able to use moving forward and actually put in a continued practice.”

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