Giants now willing to say Travis Hunter can be full two-way player

It is appearing much and much apt that pinch nan No. 3 prime successful nan 2025 draft, nan Giants will prime 1 of 2 players: Edge rusher Abdul Carter aliases cornerback/wide receiver Travis Hunter.

Both are impeccable prospects, but location are astatine slightest immoderate “concerns’’ attached to some of them.

For Carter, it is his beingness health.

He showed up astatine nan NFL scouting harvester successful Indianapolis successful precocious February, and his aesculapian checkup revealed a accent guidance successful his correct foot.

He did not participate successful immoderate drills astatine nan harvester and opted against having surgery.

Teams thought Carter mightiness activity retired March 28 astatine nan Penn State pro day, but a lingering enarthrosis wounded kept him disconnected nan field.

It was an wounded that first cropped up connected New Year’s Eve, erstwhile Carter played against Boise State successful nan Fiesta Bowl playoff game.

Carter past Friday was successful nan Giants squad facility, and aesculapian updates were portion of nan visit.

“He feels good,” Giants GM Joe Schoen said. “He’s moving out. He’s running. I don’t deliberation there’s going to beryllium overmuch room for region there.”

For Hunter, teams request to fig retired what they want to do pinch him, arsenic nan 2024 Heisman Trophy victor is considered nan apical cornerback and apical wide receiver successful this draft.

He is adamant astir playing some ways successful nan NFL, stating that he did it astatine a precocious level astatine Colorado.

How adamant? He precocious told CBS Sports, “I’ll ne'er play shot again” if nan squad that selects him determines he must attraction connected playing connected discourtesy aliases defense.

At nan commencement of nan information process, nan Giants viewed Hunter arsenic a cornerback who could besides get snaps astatine wide receiver.

They did not spot him arsenic 2 players successful one.

Those priorities mightiness person changed nan much nan Giants studied 1 of nan astir talented and versatile players to participate immoderate draft.

“He’s nosy to watch,” Schoen said. “It’s unsocial — nan shot skills, nan way ability, and besides nan expertise to spell to nan different broadside and play corner. You don’t spot that very often. A batch of times, if these guys can’t drawback aliases can’t play receiver, past they get moved to DB. This feline tin do it all. Also, he’s a awesome kid. It would beryllium difficult to support him disconnected nan field. He’s motivated to play some ways.”

With nan signing of Paulson Adebo added to Deonte Banks, Dru Phillips and Cor’Dale Flott, Schoen feels bully astir his cornerbacks. With nan re-signing of Darius Slayton, Schoen sees Malik Nabers, Wan’Dale Robinson and Slayton arsenic a beardown receiver trio.

“We’re successful a unsocial position, that we person 3 bully receivers and we for illustration our secondary correct now,” Schoen said. “So our business will beryllium unique. I would not beryllium acrophobic to play [Hunter] on some sides of nan ball.”

The beingness demands of playing upward of 100 snaps successful a crippled would beryllium enormous.

Schoen is cognizant of that but sounds much wary of really Hunter could study to excel astatine cornerback and wide receiver astatine nan adjacent level.

“To me, what will person to beryllium settled is nan intelligence portion of it, because nan discourtesy is very difficult to learn,” Schoen said. “And past nan defense connected a play basis, it’s not assemblage anymore where, hey, these are our basal plays, this is our basal defense.

“There’s a batch much week-to-week matchup type worldly that our coaches are doing. Just really overmuch tin you grip mentally wherever you tin spell retired location and execute and they tin spot you to do your job? Physically, I wouldn’t uncertainty nan kid.”

Figuring retired what is champion pinch Hunter could beryllium a moot constituent erstwhile it comes to nan Giants. The Browns are apt to prime Hunter pinch nan No. 2 pick.