Hunter's reps on D for Jaguars to start next week

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Travis Hunter's archetypal quality connected defence for the Jacksonville Jaguars volition travel adjacent week.

Coach Liam Coen said the two-way standout has been learning the violative and antiaircraft playbooks, but they opted to person him conscionable drawback passes during the Jaguars' two-day rookie campy that concluded Saturday. Instead, the squad volition get him immoderate antiaircraft reps for the archetypal clip during the past week of Phase II of the offseason conditioning program.

"We conscionable benignant of ended up making a determination that from yesterday to today, we wanted to beryllium capable to cleanable up immoderate of the things that we whitethorn person been capable to miss yesterday [and] get other reps connected the violative broadside of the shot and adjacent week he'll commencement to rotation connected defense," Coen said aft the astir 90-minute workout.

The Jaguars' program for Hunter -- who played receiver and cornerback successful assemblage astatine Jackson State and Colorado -- was to commencement retired connected discourtesy due to the fact that that's a much analyzable strategy to larn and past person him get clip connected defence arsenic helium became much comfortable. But Hunter already has started going done the antiaircraft playbook.

"You've conscionable got to get utilized to it," Hunter said. "It conscionable has a batch of antithetic types of calls, but different than that, the defence is beauteous easy. You've conscionable got to get utilized to the offense.

"Just longer calls and concepts are antithetic [on discourtesy than defense]."

Coen said Hunter already has learned immoderate of the coverages contempt not having spent arsenic overmuch clip successful the antiaircraft playbook arsenic the violative one.

"He's been capable to dive successful and larn immoderate of our three-deep coverages, what bash we telephone our three-deep coverages connected the outside, if helium has to beryllium manned up connected the backside of a three-by-one, helium knows each of those calls already," Coen said. "So, astatine the extremity of the day, it's going to beryllium about, connected the antiaircraft broadside of the ball, communication. The method and fundamentals, we'll proceed to harp on, but it's truly astir being connected the aforesaid leafage arsenic the remainder of the guys connected the backmost extremity from a connection standpoint and the remainder volition benignant of instrumentality attraction of itself.

"... He's evidently having to larn some sides of the ball. He's a football-smart guy. The crippled makes consciousness to him. And truthful present it's conscionable astir putting successful that time, that other clip that he's going to person to bash successful bid to beryllium successful."

The reigning Heisman Trophy victor played 1,481 snaps and had 1,258 yards and 15 TDs receiving to spell on with 4 interceptions connected defence past play astatine Colorado. He averaged 113.9 snaps per game.

The Jaguars traded with the Cleveland Browns to determination up 3 spots to No. 2 to draught Hunter.