Back in the day, you might have spent your weekends tearing open Topps Football Sticker packs, hoping to find your favorite player to slap into an album. Now, fantasy football drafts are where that obsession lives-and in 2025, Travis Hunter is the sticker everyone wants.
The hype makes sense. Hunter isn’t just a standout prospect. He’s trying something almost nobody in modern football has: playing both sides of the ball full-time. Think Deion Sanders meets Chuck Bednarik-only with more snaps and a lot more fantasy implications.
That’s what makes Hunter one of the most intriguing (and complicated) names on fantasy draft boards this season. He logged an insane 1,552 snaps at Colorado last year-753 on offense, 799 on defense. That’s nearly triple the workload of the average FBS wide receiver. Project that over 17 NFL games, and you’re looking at 2,030 snaps. For context? Jerry Jeudy led all NFL receivers in snaps last year with 1,055. Tyreek Hill played 900.
He Might Be the Most-Used Player in NFL History-And That’s the Problem
No other modern player has come close to that kind of workload. Not even Sanders, who briefly played WR and CB for Dallas in 1996. He caught 36 passes and played 12 games on offense before shutting it down. After that season, Sanders returned to full-time cornerback duties and never looked back.
Hunter’s role might follow a similar arc, especially considering what Jaguars GM James Gladstone told SiriusXM NFL Radio. “We’re loading him offensively during the offseason,”Gladstone said, “but he’s naturally more comfortable on defense.” Translation: even the team isn’t totally sure where to put him.
And that’s where fantasy owners start sweating. Unless you’re in an IDP (Individual Defensive Player) league, defensive snaps don’t score points. So if Hunter doesn’t get significant offensive usage, he might be all hype and no return-like drafting a shiny sticker that never actually sticks.
But if Jacksonville commits to letting him run routes and rack up touches? He’s a fantasy unicorn with league-winning potential.
Of course, there’s risk. Can his body hold up for 1,900+ snaps in a league built on speed and collisions? Even the legends had their limits. Chuck Bednarik himself once scoffed at modern players attempting two-way football, telling Sports Illustrated in 1993, “There’s no way in hell they can go both ways.”
Hunter is going to try anyway-and maybe prove everyone wrong. Just like those childhood sticker books, you either complete the set… or it ends up collecting dust in the basement.
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