What if the Jacksonville Jaguars never drafted Travis Hunter at second overall in the 2025 NFL Draft \u2014 because they never got the opportunity to?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s say, hypothetically, that the two-way phenom decided to take a gap year after winning the 2024 Heisman Trophy and before entering the league. Let\u2019s also assume that he\u2019d continue training privately and not lose any draft stock (like Ja\u2019Marr Chase opting out of his third college season).<\/p>\n
Would the Las Vegas Raiders consider taking Hunter over Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the first overall pick in the upcoming 2026 NFL Draft?<\/p>\n
Choosing between the two most recent Heisman winners would be a nice problem to have. On one hand, the Raiders could pick a pro-ready prospect with the intangibles to be a potential franchise quarterback. On the other hand, they could pick a unicorn.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an interesting debate of positional value. Generally speaking, would you rather bet on the most important position in sports, or on a player who aims to play the most snaps in the sport? Beyond that, which individual prospect do you have more faith in between Hunter and Mendoza?<\/p>\n
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What if the Jacksonville Jaguars never drafted Travis Hunter at second overall in the 2025 NFL Draft \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,212,125,81887,2408,2401,213,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-871935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-discussion","12":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-draft","13":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","14":"tag-jaguars","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116448771707131691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871935","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=871935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}