Travis Hunter admits that his position will depend on who will write it

If Travis Hunter was still at university, he could play wherever he wanted to play. And he could condition his decision on the question of whether his next team will let him attack and defense.

But in the NFL tri-chat ritual, Hunter’s professional football position (s) will not be determined by him. Because it has no way to avoid a team that will not use it as it would like to be used.

Hunter knows it. And he knows that he has no real choice, given the power of the ultimate reality TV show on anything known as the project.

The project. Where there is only one command: you will not resist the project.

Via Jeff Legwold of Espn.com, Hunter said on Friday that he would mainly play the cornerback or the hinge receiver “in the team that chooses me. “”

It is unprecedented in the modern football era. Hunter plays both positions. He surely has a preference. His preference will not matter.

A team could put it to the receiver. Another team could put him in the corner. Another could let him play in both directions, all the time. Another could allow it sparingly. Another could say “no means” to the two -way game.

The Browns, which hold the second choice in the draft, See Hunter mainly as a receiver. Other teams surely see him as a corner first.

Hunter is officially willing to submit to everything the sorting hat says. Because there is really nothing other than he can do. Because nothing turns on traditional football fans more than a player rubbing the draft. This was happened for the last time in 2004 with Eli Manning, before social media and the complete 24/7 generation of NFL content and opinions.

Even if the best players should absolutely repel, repel the decline would become Grist for the endless hot and polarization mill. Regardless of what media members really believe, there would be a lot of money to earn by opposing one head talking to the other to find out if a player should refuse to play for the team who won the right to choose the player by being one of the worst in the league. And, for some media, shitting on the player for daring to resist would be completely on the brand.

So Hunter is stuck. He will accept wherever he is chosen. And then the question will be whether it signs a second contract or discreetly seeks a path to another team – even if it is necessary to refuse an extension, play your five -year contract in the first round and spend a year or two from the franchise label.