Travis Hunter would rather stop playing football than pick between WR and CB

Colorado receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter wants to be a two-way player in the NFL. Hunter has never wavered on that and with the NFL Draft just nine days away, Hunter is steadfast that if you draft him, you better have a plan to allow him to play both ways.

Hunter told Garrett Podell of CBS Sports that it hasn’t been an issue with any franchise he’s met with. But if an NFL team says he can’t, he’s simply not interested in playing football.

“It’s never playing football again,” Hunter said last week. “Because I’ve been doing it my whole life, and I love being on the football field. I feel like I could dominate on each side of the ball, so I really enjoy doing it.”

Hunter totaled 1,258 yards and a Big 12-leading 15 touchdowns on offense while adding 36 tackles and four interceptions on defense. He played 713 offensive snaps and 748 defensive snaps in 2024.

He was listed as a defensive back at the NFL Scouting Combine but ran routes for Shedeur Sanders at Colorado’s Pro Day. His confidence is high that he can do both and do both well at the NFL level.

“I just feel very confident in myself, and I got a competitive spirit that I can do whatever I put my mind to, and I feel like I can do it,” Hunter said.

Deion Sanders confident Travis Hunter can play both ways in NFL

Deion Sanders, his coach at Colorado, certainly feels he can do both. In fact, Sanders thinks it will be easier at the next level.

“Both,” Sanders told NFL Network at Colorado’s Pro Day. “The NFL is a slow game. You huddle [every play]. How is the contact nowadays? Minimal. That game is more conducive to him being successful than a college game. College is tempo, tempo, tempo. Now, you’re talking about you have to be in shape. Pros, how many seconds between plays? Please, he’s going to go jogging after the darn game because he’s going to have all that energy man. He is built for this.”

Hunter will be a top five pick in the NFL Draft. It just a matter of which team pulls the trigger on the two-way standout. When that moment comes and Hunter hears his name called by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, it will be a dream come true.

“It’ll just be a blessing,” Hunter said. “I’ll be the first person in my family to be able to do that. I’m also the oldest in my immediate family, and I have younger siblings. … My little siblings look up to me, and they know their big brother is doing everything that he put his mind to.”