Playing two ways and doing it at a high level, in baseball and football is incredibly difficult.
But what is the most difficult: what Shohei Ohtani does in baseball or what Travis Hunter does in football?
“Probably me, what I do in football (it’s more difficult) because it’s a lot on your body,” Hunter told journalists from the NFL combination.
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The defensive back of Colorado Travis Hunter (DB15) during the combination of NFL 2025 at Lucas Oil Stadium. (Images Tanner Pearson-Imagn)
“Ohtani is a great player, but you have to do a lot in football.”
In addition to the physical challenges of playing two ways in both sports, it takes a lot of additional preparation to be able to play in both directions.
No one has played two full -time ways in the NFL from the Temple of Fame Chuck Bednarik, who was an assistant and an offensive line for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1949 to 1962. The Hunter coach, Deion Sanders, also played both sides, but made his career in the renown temple.
Ohtani prospered as a two -way player with the Los Angeles Angels and Los Angeles Dodgers because he won three MVP during his seven -year career.
Travis Hunter closes in the ability to become a successful two -way player in the NFL: “ I’m just different ”
Los Angeles Dodgers appointed the shopping shohei Ohtani, when he directed the bases of his Home Run solo during the ninth round of a baseball match against the Nationals of Washington in Nationals Park on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Washington. The Dodgers won 4-1. (AP photo / Alex Brandon)
Last season, Ohtani did not launch because he recovered elbow surgery, but he nevertheless won the MVP NL as a designated striker.
Hunter is categorical that he wants to play in both directions in the NFL after prospering both in the cornerback and the wide colorado receiver, winning the Heisman trophy in 2024.
“I have been doing this for a long time, so I feel like I am continuing to do it,” he said. “I hope they will let me go 100% (both), but it’s the organization.”
The routine of the week of games of six feet one and 185 pounds in Colorado called for alarm clocks early in the morning, regular treatment sessions, solo study sessions to master the two game plants and understand the staff and a commitment to keep their body in the form of a point so that it can play about 2,500-press buttons in the last two seasons.
The wide receiver of Colorado Buffaloes, Travis Hunter (12), reacts after the victory against the Oklahoma State cowboys at Folsom Field. (Images of Ron Chenoy-Imagn)
Sanders was ardent in his conviction that Hunter can play in both directions in the NFL.
Hunter does not train at the Indianapolis harvester, but said he had interviewed the teams where he answered questions about the wide receiver and the cornerback.
It will be to the team that writes Hunter to decide how he wants to deploy it, because the degree of difficulty is very high to play in both directions, and even less do it at a high level for a regular season of 17 games.
