With college football hitting the mid-season mark, NFL area scouts are hitting the home stretch for their season reports on prospects for the 2025 NFL Draft. Colorado cornerback Travis Hunter is one of the top consensus prospects for the draft and is a fascinating player, with the debate on whether he should be a full-time cornerback or wide receiver in the NFL always present. In speaking with an area scout and general manager about Hunter, the position debate is still in the air, but they also have some medical concerns that they attach to Hunter’s report.
“He had an ankle injury two years ago, the liver last year, and now a shoulder this year, so we have to look into that and consider that,” said an area scout.
Hunter has an uncommon workload for a player playing an incredible number of snaps per game between wide receiver and cornerback. Obviously, playing that amount increases his chances of sustaining an injury. That area scout said the word at Colorado was that Hunter wants to continue playing both sides of the ball in the NFL, but teams are more inclined to use him full-time at one position with a few snaps on the other side of the ball. Entering the season, that area scout saw Hunter as a cornerback more than a receiver, but now he feels he might be switching that around.
“I’m not sure yet, but I’m leaning more towards receiver now,” he said. In following up with a general manager who has scouted Hunter, he said that he wasn’t sure yet either, but he also entered the season also thinking of Hunter as a cornerback. The position battle could rage on through the draft and into Hunter’s rookie training camp. Even with that debate and potential medical concerns, Hunter should get selected quickly, and I have him going very high in my latest 2025 NFL Mock Draft.
