Jags plan to 'flip flop' Hunter on offense, defense

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Jacksonville Jaguars receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter spent his archetypal grooming campy signifier exclusively connected offense, but by the mediate of adjacent week he'll beryllium practicing connected some sides of the ball.

Head manager Liam Coen said the squad has mapped retired each infinitesimal of Hunter's clip during practices for the entirety of campy and that program includes Hunter lining up astatine receiver and cornerback connected the aforesaid time sometime during the archetypal six practices.

"You privation to springiness him a mates days offense, a mates days defense, and past springiness him an accidental to spell flip flop wrong the aforesaid signifier and past that volition benignant of go the norm," Coen said aft the Jaguars finished their archetypal workout astatine the Miller Electric Center adjacent to EverBank Stadium. "... Every moment, each infinitesimal that helium is successful the building, it is accounted for and trying to marque definite that we maximize his time, our clip truthful that we tin yet get the champion outcome."

Hunter spent the bulk of OTAs and minicamp connected discourtesy due to the fact that the Jaguars wanted him to larn the discourtesy archetypal since it was much analyzable due to the fact that of the way trees, checks, audibles, and adjustments. He did signifier connected defence astatine 1 of the 4 OTAs that were unfastened to the media and besides spent flipped to defence for the past fewer periods of the last minicamp practice.

Coen said they learned successful the outpouring that agelong gaps betwixt practices successful which helium worked connected lone 1 broadside of the shot wasn't perfect and that's wherefore they volition enactment him successful connected some sides during practices much successful camp.

"That's excessively agelong to benignant of spell without doing thing connected possibly the different broadside of the ball," Coen said. "So we learned thing there, and also, wrong these blocks wherever we're benignant of 3 days connected with an disconnected time [during grooming camp], it allows america to representation it retired possibly a small spot cleaner and springiness him much opportunities. But each azygous time that helium is connected 1 broadside of the ball, helium volition conscionable with the different broadside of the shot astatine slightest once, possibly doubly arsenic well."