Travis Hunter was a Heisman Trophy winner on the field and nearly reached the pinnacle of his studies off of it at Colorado, as the two-way gridiron star just missed on having a perfect grade-point average.
The now-Jacksonville Jaguars star finished with a 3.9 GPA in Boulder, one-tenth off a perfect unweighted mark for students.
A 4.0 would have Hunter graded with all A's as final grades during a semester. With how much travel and responsibilities there are involved with being one of the best college football players in the country, Hunter's mark is wildly impressive.
NCAA student-athletes need to be taking 15 credits worth of classes to remain eligible, usually with five classes worth three credits apiece. It takes 120 credits to get an undergraduate degree, with eight semesters of full-time coursework getting to that total.
Earlier this year, Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said he didn't 'know if there's enough hours in the day for a player' to learn both sides of the ball in the NFL. Hunter disagrees.
'It's the only thing I ever did is play football,' he said in pre-draft workouts. 'And go out there, study, and make sure I know what I'm doing.'
Jacksonville Jaguars two-way star Travis Hunter finished college with a near-perfect 3.9 GPA
Hunter was under a massive spotlight at Colorado and kept his off-the-field matters intact
Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Liam Coen does not see a problem with Hunter playing both ways for the team.
Hunter did so in the Jaguars preseason game against the Pittsburgh Steelers last Saturday.
'He made a couple good catches on some option routes and missed the one tackle defensively that I noticed,' Coen said. 'I’ll have to watch the tape on how he operated defensively a little bit more, but I thought offensively, he made the right decisions on those option routes.'
'Made a good catch, almost broke out of that one where Trevor put it behind him on that third down we talked about, but I’ll have to go watch the tape a little bit more to know more.'
It remains to be seen how Hunter's skills translate on a full-time basis to the NFL. He definitely has the mental ability to attempt playing both ways, evidenced by his college studies.