Maximizing Travis Hunter’s Impact: A Game Plan for Sustainable Success

Travis Hunter playing both ways. I know we all love to see it. We love to see it, and I’m not suggesting that they don’t play him both ways. But the plan for Travis Hunter has to change. It has to change. He played basically every snap on defense and missed only two snaps on offense. So he played. And he played 7 on special teams. So guess how many snaps he played. 136. 136. And if he plays 136 out of one, 80. I’m like, okay, it’s one. It’s 1:36. That’s what it is. But when it’s 1:36 out of 1:40, that’s too much, because that suggests that he was wasting effort in. Because, listen, a game is kind of like a bell curve, all right? There. There are snaps that. That become meaningless, and then there are. The bulk of the snaps are kind of like, in the middle, and then there’s these snaps on the other side, and there’s just a few that mean everything. And what you have to do is that you have to shove his snap total into the back half of the bell curve. You’ve got to get him off the field for this. 10, 12% of the snaps that don’t matter, that has to be part of the game plan. First downs, base, base defense on. On. You know, your opponent’s side of the territory. You know all these different things that you can do. By the way, here’s. Here’s another little One. Build an offensive game plan so that he’s always the wide receiver nearest your bench. Build a defensive game plan that he’s always the corner nearest your bench. Maybe not always, but maybe there is a certain call or in certain parts of the field where you can put him there so that he can slide in and out and take five or six snaps off and it doesn’t hurt you. Okay, based on field position, time of game, game situation, all these. Those. These different things, I make the contention that you need to take 10 to 15% of Travis Hunter’s snaps away from him. And you can do that so that in those moments that you need him to be the elite player that he is, he can play at his peak potential. Cause right now, when you red line like that the entire year, it will break down. And if he breaks down after what I saw on Thursday night, they don’t have anything else. So it’s incumbent on the coaching staff to build a game plan that allows him to be sustainable. So again, this. This word of sustainable. What happened Thursday night was not sustainable at all. You can’t expect Shadore and Travis to do that every single week and bail everybody else out. The game plan has to be better from the coaching staff, and the play from those teammates have got to get better. We see this same undisciplined play from the Same undisciplined players, time and time again. Those penalties have to stop.