Thursday, April 24, 2025

[U X2] Tangent: Travis Hunter (All Everything!) Selected No. 2 By Jacksonville (Home State).


Many will recall that I closely followed the careers of both Hunter and Sanders at my University of Colorado Buffs, mentioning their exploits here numerous times. Perhaps ad nauseum. But that pink suit is. . . the biz-ness, no?!

Now they are on -- to what are undoubtedly going to be $50-$100 million careers. Here's that:

. . .Jaguars Jump Up to No. 2 to Snag Travis Hunter in Massive Deal at Start of NFL Draft. . . .

The Jaguars send the No. 5 pick in the first round, along with the No. 36 pick (second-round), No. 126 (fourth-round) and next year's first-round pick for the right to take Hunter, according to ESPN. The Browns send pick No. 2, No. 104 (fourth-round) and No. 200 (sixth-round) back to Jacksonville. . . .


Blockbuster -- to open the draft at Lambeau! Now we wait to see who gets Shedeur Sanders -- cool -- though in fairness, this is a year rich with top flight quarterbacks, and fewer teams that really need a franchise quarterback. . . So Shedeur has slipped beyond the first round and may not be taken util later this evening, in the second or even third round. But he too, will make vast millions of dollars and deserve it!

Updated -- late Friday night (and I don't think anyone expected this!): Shedeur remains undrafted at the end of the third round. In the fifth round, at 144 overall, Shedeur is drafted by the Cleveland Browns. That's puzzling at best -- but Tom Brady, a six time Super Bowl winning QB, wasn't drafted until the sixth round his year. Still…

That's. . . crazy.

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