How Jaguars' Travis Hunter Made His Biggest Play Yet

The NFL world at large spent the first few weeks of the 2025 season waiting for Travis Hunter to make his big play.

In the last two weeks, they have gotten two of them as the Jacksonville Jaguars' rookie and No. 2 pick has picked up some momentum at wide receiver.

The first play was a 21-yard catch-and-run last week against the Houston Texans, with Hunter avoiding one tackle attempt before putting moves on a second Texans defender.

“Yeah, I thought last week he definitely made a play with the ball in his hands, and I think we can continue to get the ball in his hands as much as it allows from a formation, motion, the concept, the coverage sometimes dictates where the ball goes," Jaguars head coach Liam Coen said last week. "It was very nice to see him on a second and long, I believe it was, catch a five-yard pass and go do something with it. That's so much that's a part of this game, and it's not something you can necessarily always coach them to do. So, I think as we continue to go, his usage will continue to go.”

Then Sunday's game against the San Francisco 49ers came around, and Hunter made his biggest play as a Jaguar to date.

With the Jaguars backed up in their own end zone and facing 3rd-and-long, quarterback Trevor Lawrence threw a deep ball to Hunter over the middle of the field. Hunter came up big for the offense, catching the pass in traffic and coming down with a 28-yard catch -- his most explosive play yet.