Travis Hunter came into the league as the ultimate two-way experiment, the Heisman winner who played both cornerback and receiver at Colorado and got drafted to keep doing it in the NFL. The question all offseason was how the Jaguars would actually split his reps once real football started. Through the first stretch of training camp, the answer looks tilted toward offense way more than people assumed.
Must watch video for Jaguars expectations. Seems like Parker Washington is favorite for all categories, and Travis Hunter is going to play more WR than initially expected (and more downfield opportunities). It'd make sense to me to lower Meyers' snaps. https://t.co/Mgc3Hdv8K4
Hayden Winks laid it out bluntly: Parker Washington looks like the favorite across the board among Jacksonville's pass catchers, and Hunter is on track to play more wide receiver, with more downfield shots, than the offseason plan suggested. Winks went as far as saying it'd make sense for the Jaguars to start scaling back Jakobi Meyers' snaps if this trend holds. That's a notable shift for a receiver room that was supposed to run through Meyers as the clear WR1 target.
The numbers back it up early. Hunter has taken 69 total snaps through the team periods of camp, splitting 41 at cornerback and 28 at receiver, and camp reports out of Jacksonville have flagged him for winning contested catches downfield against Trevor Lawrence throws. Hunter himself has made clear he wants every snap he can get, telling reporters he doesn't want to leave the field at all. If that WR share keeps creeping toward half his overall reps, as Winks suggested, Hunter's fantasy ceiling changes fast.
If Travis Hunter is close to 50% snaps at WR this year, like suggested here, then he can out-score Jakobi imo. I have them very close in rankings.
Winks followed up by saying that if Hunter gets close to 50% snaps at receiver this year, he can outscore Jakobi Meyers, and he's now got the two rated close together in his rankings. That's a real reranking, not just camp hype, coming from someone who watches this stuff for a living.
Meanwhile Parker Washington isn't just riding shotgun in this story. He's coming off a strong finish to 2025 where he topped 100 receiving yards in 3 of the Jaguars' final 4 games and turned into one of Lawrence's most trusted targets, and he's doing it again this camp in a contract year, which tends to bring out the best in guys fighting for a payday.
Put it together and Jacksonville's receiver room looks nothing like the tidy depth chart from the spring. Washington is trending toward every-week relevance, Hunter is eating into snaps as a legitimate downfield threat instead of a gadget piece, and Meyers is the guy who might have to give up targets to make room. Worth watching closely as camp reps turn into preseason snaps and, eventually, real game plans.