Be all you can be.

Unless you’re Travis Hunter and trying to become the first player in modern NFL history to play two positions, down after down and game after game.

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The former Colorado cornerback and wide receiver is trying to take professional football into the space age.

But because Hunter is about to be drafted into a cookie-cutter sport that prefers copycats over ‘On the Road’ free thinkers, the most interesting NFL Draft prospect in decades is already being confined and caged.

“I feel like I could dominate on each side of the ball, so I really enjoy doing it,” Hunter recently told CBS Sports. 

But NFL teams worth billions of dollars have already doubted Hunter.

Kansas City Chiefs superstar Travis Kelce, who doubles as Taylor Swift‘s boyfriend, has already questioned if Hunter can really pull off the previously impossible.

And Hunter has been forced to spend recent months constantly defending himself, despite the fact that he won the 2024 Heisman Trophy for being the best player in college football while playing two positions at once.

The 6ft 1in and 185lb Hunter is one of the top prospects in the 2025 draft, thanks to 153 catches, 1,979 receiving yards, 20 touchdowns, 66 tackles and seven interceptions at Colorado while sharing the field with Shedeur Sanders.

“(Hunter) is one of the most fascinating studies to come out of the draft in many years,” NFL Draft expert Simon Clancy exclusively told talkSPORT.

The former Colorado star learned from do-everything Deion Sanders to remain limitless and free on the field.

Coach Prime – best known as Prime Time and Neon Deion to the previous generation – once tested the boundaries of athletic space and time by bouncing between the NFL and MLB.

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Hunter has game-changing speed on both sides of the ball[/caption]

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He teamed with Shedeur Sanders at two college stops[/caption]

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Hunter learned the ropes from one of the best two-way talents in sports history[/caption]

Hunter obviously has the talent to be a Pro Bowl defensive back.

And a Pro Bowl wide receiver.

A young man who was named Academic All-American of the Year also has the off-the-field acumen to embrace his own historic internal expectations.

“I just feel very confident in myself,” Hunter said. 

“I got a competitive spirit that I can do whatever I put my mind to, and I feel like I can do it.”

That sounds like 100 percent American spirit in 2025.

But Hunter has been laughed at and trolled on social media, and also had his sincere intentions questioned by his future pro colleagues. 

“He’s gonna have to prove that he can do it,” Kelce said. “Nobody has ever played every single play on both sides. 

“When Deion did it, he was in nickel. He was in certain packages, I believe.”

Questioning whether Hunter could play corner and receiver year after year, season after season, is one thing.

The Tennessee Titans, Cleveland Browns or New York Giants could soon be making a $40 million investment in a prospect with the initial makings of a future Hall of Famer.

One injury would change everything.

And it’s hard to be the best player on your team if you’re dropping critical passes in one series, then getting burnt in the open field on the next.

But the fact that Hunter is being doubted this much before he even takes a training camp snap is … hilarious.

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Hunter believes in himself as a two-way talent[/caption]

Or embarrassing, depending on how you view the NFL’s entrenched ego-driven hierarchy.

Hunter would be the top pick in a ‘normal’ draft.

In the 2025 NFL Draft, he’s expected to at best go No. 2, and the likely first pick has been compared to Kenny Pickett. 

The NFL is the ultimate athletic proving ground, and redefines ‘survival of the fittest.’

You’re only as good as you’re last snap, your career is always one injury away from being over, and ‘next man up’ is a nice way of saying ‘everyone is expendable.’

Hunter has already told all 32 teams he’s willing to do two jobs at a very high level, for the same amount of pay.

He also already sounds like a team captain, on-field leader and community hero.

Only the NFL would make Hunter feel like an outcast before he’s even been drafted.