If there were any concerns about Travis Hunter’s availability for Week 1, they wiped away on Wednesday by Jaguars general manager James Gladstone. Gladstone provided a positive update on Hunter, the team’s rookie receiver/cornerback who missed Jacksonville’s final two preseason games after he sustained an upper-body injury on August 14.
“Oh, that’s not the case,” Gladstone said when asked about the possibility of Hunter being unavailable for the opener against the Panthers. “He’s on the grass today and and rolling full speed.”
Hunter, who the team traded up to choose with the No. 2 pick, did not play in the Jaguars’ last two preseason games. First-year coach Liam Coen said last week that the team was treating the injury cautiously and did not want to risk Hunter further aggravating the issue.
“Could he have probably gone? I think so,” Coen said. “If this was Carolina, would he have probably played? Yeah, so we’re moving in the right direction.”
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Beyond his preseason health concerns, the question all offseason has been how the Jaguars plan to use Hunter, who flourished on both sides of the ball at Colorado. Last fall, Hunter won the Heisman Trophy and the Biletnikoff Award (given annually to college football’s top receiver) and was also tabbed as the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.
Hunter played 713 offensive snaps and 748 defensive snaps last season. As a receiver, he…
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