Travis Hunter represents both a window into the NFL draft’s great promise and a sinkhole into what happens when a team takes on more than it can handle. So it was with a great deal of restraint that the Cleveland Browns—having traded away the right to select him Thursday night—are effectively bowing out of the task. It would have been a scenario that, like some wing-and-a-prayer parlay, could have helped erase some of the debt incurred by the horrendous Deshaun Watson experiment if Hunter turns into a legitimate two-way superstar.
