How He Got Here: Hunter was selected with the 117th overall pick in the fourth round of the 2025 NFL Draft out of Auburn. The Rams traded up 10 spots to get him.<\/p>\n
What’s Next: Hunter brings an explosive element to the Rams’ running back room. He had more rushes of 10-plus yards last season at Auburn (42) on 186 carries than the Rams did (37) on 450 attempts. Hunter will be a nice complement to Kyren Williams and Blake Corum, who both boast more power than speed. As Hunter adjusts to the Rams’ offense and speed of the NFL, the self-described “country boy” from Mississippi will also be adapting to life in Los Angeles, a big change from his southern roots.<\/p>\n
Bet You Didn’t Know: Hunter can box squat 675 pounds.<\/p>\n
Quotable: “I grew up in the country. I’m a country boy, I’m from Mississippi. I mean, that’s all it is is trees around here. I heard (there’s) a country part in L.A. I’ve never seen it, but I’ve heard of it, you know? I’m an outside person. That’s why I picked natural resource management (as my major), because I like to be outside. I feel like that’s where I get my peace from, just being outside with animals and horses.” – Hunter on April 26 after being drafted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How He Got Here: Hunter was selected with the 117th overall pick in the fourth round of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1950,1014,58,2444,2611,34514,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-188915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jarquez-hunter","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-newcomer-update","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114813378545572294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}