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For the first time in four years, Travis Hunter and Sheder Sanders will not be teammates at the start of their football season.
Hunter, the second overall choice of Jacksonville jaguars, and Sanders, who waited two more days to hear his name called the Fifth Tour by the Browns of Cleveland, played together in Jackson State and Colorado during their college days.
Now they hope to have an impact on their respective franchises in the NFL.
A large projector hangs over the two players entering their seasons recruited for various reasons. For Hunter, the director general James Gladstone has already expressed the expectation that Hunter will be the generational talent that raises the team, as well as the city and the football game, during what he considers a career in the fame of fame.
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The wide receiver of Jacksonville jaguars, Travis Hunter, n ° 12, meets the media after the minicamp recruit at the Miller Electric Center. (Images Travis Register-Imagn)
In the case of Sanders, he will be put in a quarter battle which includes Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel, the Oregon product which was written two laps before him last month.
Hunter said that he had spoken to Sanders since his slide on the NFL recovery board, and he knows that his former teammate and a great friend is ready to do exactly the same thing that he will start his NFL trip.
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“We are just going to work, guy,” said Hunter, talking about his enthusiasm to associate with Panini America, who will give him his first recruit commercial card during the first recruit of the NFLPA in Los Angeles.
“We both hit our heads and do what we have to do. There are a lot of skeptics for him, and he’s going to work. I’m going to go to work and do what we have always done.”
While the world of football examined closely how Sanders and Gabriel were in competition in the mini recruit, Hunter has already exceeded the expectations that the Jaguars already had for him.
Tony Boselli, the executive vice-president of Jaguars’ football operations, told NFL Network that, although he understands that Hunter was not even running in pads yet, the team was postponed by watching him closely with his new teammates.
Jacksonville Jaguars, Travis Hunter’s wide receiver, n ° 12, made a reception during the Minicamp recruit of the NFL football team on Saturday May 10, 2025 in Jacksonville, Florida. (AP photo / John Raoux)
“We had high expectations. He exceeded my expectations,” said Boselli. “You see the athlete on the ground, you see how he moves, the change of direction, the control of the body, but it is the person with whom I am most in love.”
While Hunter accumulates in his life in the NFL, he is also very aware of the leadership aspect of being a leading choice. Jaguars already have players like Trevor Lawrence, Travon Walker and Josh Hines-Allen as a veteran presence in the locker room, but Hunter knows that he can be added to the mixture as long as he first does his job.
The same goes for Sanders with the Browns.
“We must certainly be leaders, especially me,” said Hunter. “I was the overall choice number two, so I have to come and be a leader. Shemer, he must go and work, win his work like me. But he must also go and be the head of the offense, so he must go there and be a leader.”
Hunter said that his time with the Jaguars had been “brilliant” so far, and that he will only continue because OTA will finally lead to the training camp this summer.
One of one
While Hunter continues to do the work, he is also excited for an important step at the start of his career – seeing himself for the first time on an NFL sales card.
Hunter has teamed up with Panini America, as well as several other incoming recruits, where they will receive their first Panini NFL negotiation cards during the first recruit of the NFLPA.
Travis Hunter smiles by opening Panini America NFL negotiation card packs. (Panini America)
“Just super excited to see me on my own card, so it’s definitely a blessing,” he said.
One day, the Hunter recruit card could be worth the value of the pretty penny. But he understands that it is up to him to make it happen.
“I don’t know,” he told him how much he would pay for his recruit card. “I still have to do work.”
