JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Travis Hunter’s first look on protection for the Jacksonville Jaguars will come subsequent week.
Coach Liam Coen stated the two-way standout has been studying the offensive and defensive playbooks, however they opted to have him simply catch passes through the Jaguars’ two-day rookie camp that concluded Saturday. The crew will get him some defensive reps for the primary time over the past week of Part Two of the offseason conditioning program.
“We simply type of ended up making a call that from yesterday to in the present day, we wished to have the ability to clear up among the issues that we could have been in a position to miss yesterday [and] get further reps on the offensive facet of the ball and subsequent week he’ll begin to roll on protection,” Coen stated after the roughly 90-minute exercise.
The Jaguars’ plan for Hunter — who performed receiver and cornerback in school at Jackson State and Colorado — was to begin out on offense as a result of that is a extra complicated system to study after which have him get time on protection as he grew to become extra snug. However Hunter already has began going by means of the defensive playbook.
“You have simply obtained to get used to it,” Hunter stated. “It simply has plenty of various kinds of calls, however apart from that, the protection is fairly straightforward. You have simply obtained to get used to the offense.
“Simply longer calls and ideas are totally different [on offense than defense].”
Coen stated Hunter already has realized among the coverages regardless of not having spent as a lot time within the defensive playbook because the offensive one.
“He is been in a position to dive in and study a few of our three-deep coverages, what can we name our three-deep coverages on the surface, if he must be manned up on the bottom of a three-by-one, he is aware of all of these calls already,” Coen stated. “So, on the finish of the day, it should be about, on the defensive facet of the ball, communication. The method and fundamentals, we’ll proceed to harp on, however it’s actually about being on the identical web page as the remainder of the fellows on the again finish from a communication standpoint and the remainder will type of care for itself.
“He is clearly having to study either side of the ball. He is a football-smart man. The sport is sensible to him. And so now it is nearly placing in that point, that further time that he’ll should do in an effort to achieve success.”
The reigning Heisman Trophy winner performed 1,481 snaps and had 1,258 yards and 15 TDs receiving to go together with 4 interceptions on protection final season at Colorado. He averaged 113.9 snaps per recreation.
The Jaguars traded with the Cleveland Browns to maneuver up three spots to No. 2 to draft Hunter.
