The Jaguars’ 2025 season came to an end at the hands of the Bills over the weekend in the wild card round of this year’s NFL playoffs. It was a disappointing conclusion to the season but there were plenty of positives for Jacksonville to build on in the first year of the Liam Coen-James Gladstone partnership. It was, however, a bit of a mixed bag for the franchise’s first-round draft pick, Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter.
The Jags picked Hunter second in the 2025 NFL draft and tried to take advantage of his wide-ranging skillset by giving him snaps on both sides of the ball, hoping to replicate the success he found at Colorado as a two-way player. It didn’t prove to be the smoothest transition. Hunter lined up for 67% of the team’s offensive snaps and 36% of the defensive snaps but didn’t make many big plays on either side of the ball. Then he suffered a season-ending knee injury that wound up requiring surgery and spent the last few months of the Jaguars’ season rehabbing instead of participating in the playoff run.
