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Sep 21, 2024; Boulder, Colorado, USA; Colorado Buffaloes wide receiver Travis Hunter (12) before the game against the Baylor Bears at Folsom Field.
Travis Hunter is the gift to college football that just keeps on giving. It’s time for college football to return the favor.
Through four weeks of the season, people are beginning to realize just how large the gap is between Hunter and the second best player in college football. It’s why the projected first-round NFL draft pick is now a popular front runner on many Heisman Trophy watchlists.
It’s all a charade, though.
Despite being the best show in college football, deep down, the world knows that Hunter won’t be the recipient of the sport’s most prestigious award. Heisman voters will find a way to award a quarterback for the fourth consecutive year. They’ll say the Colorado football team didn’t win enough games, or that another player (quarterback) impacted winning more.
It’s a shame, really, because Hunter is doing things that even veteran college football coaches have never seen before.
“He’s just an elite player and it’s really, really impressive to see what he’s doing playing that many snaps,” UCF head coach Gus Malzahn said Monday of Hunter. “Since I’ve been in college football, I’ve not seen it.
“When you watch him on film, he’s the best player on the film in all four games and it’s not even close so, yeah, he’s an elite guy.”
No FBS player has even come close to playing more snaps than Hunter’s 532 so far this season. Nevada’s Kitan Crawford is the closest with 363. It’s not that Hunter is just on the field for nearly every snap of every game, it’s that he’s dominating on both sides of the ball.
Since Heisman voters likely won’t acknowledge this generational talent for what he truly is, Hunter deserves his own award.
There is an entire generation of kids out there who are…
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Author : The Coloradoan
Publish date : 2024-09-25 00:30:19
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