Deion Sanders Expects NFL Teams to Continue Using Travis Hunter as a 2-Way Player | THE ODD COUPLE

[Music] and um interesting stuff now we know Colorado coached by Dion Sanders big game against Nebraska tomorrow wow uh that's going to be a good one of course Nebraska has the quarterback they call baby momes is that what they call him baby Mahomes uh rayola is his last what's his first name Rob G uh Dyan rayola yeah uh nice looks just like Mahomes and tries to look just like momes but good player but Nebraska hasn't had a winning season in like seven years Matt rule of Coach the coach there now but uh I I kind of think they'll beat Colorado and Colorado uh Dion of course always talking willing to talk and they've got the Travis Hunter two-way player Great Wide Receiver great cornerback a lot of people talking about him maybe even winning the Heisman and uh Dion who knows a little something about going both ways in the NFL of course AR probably the greatest defensive back cornerback ever uh and also played a little bit he he didn't really go both ways but played you know a little bit of wide receiver in the NFL here's what he said about Travis's chances of playing both ways at the next level former NFL players right sit on these type of platforms and all the kind of plat forms that give them a voice now sit up there and say what this man can't do at the next level right how stupid is that yeah how can you say what a person can't do just because you can't fathom it yeah no one has seen a guy go both ways like he goes and you say oh he can't do yes he can that's what he does that's all he knows so how you going to tell a man what he can't do and the scouts ask me every day what is he I say he's a football player if you put him on offense in the NFL and you don't have him on defense you're going to look like a fool because he's going to be your defensive player not playing and the same thing vice versa so the best thing for you to do is draft in the whatever and had a have a package ready for him on opposing side all right you heard it now Rob G was it the athletic that had an article about this it was CBS sports right after these comments came out which were actually less than 48 hours ago CBS Sports caught up with a few Anonymous NFL Personnel individuals and they asked them about whether now these are Executives like well Personnel people what how they described it and they spoke to two of them one of them says quote about the idea of Travis playing both ways in the NFL there's no way at his size and his body frame that he could play 17 games in the NFL at over 100 snaps a game and really maintain that level performance maybe there's someone that dabbles into something like he's a full-time receiver and and then a part-time nickel on defense another Scout who actually was a little bit more optimistic said this I know several Scouts of that same opinion that he's a better receiver Prospect than he is a corner when I watched him this summer I was thinking receiver over corner and I think it's ultimately going to come down to where he wants to play but I think he can play both or play either well Rob He's listed at 611 18 5 now Rob G doesn't think he's 61 he thinks he's more like 510 either way Rob we see ex cornerbacks we used to see him all the time at ESPN we see them at FS1 these dudes are not tall they're not that big like some of them I'm bigger than you've seen that too Rob and I know it's amazing sometimes yeah it really is you're like my goodness how how this dude play in the NFL y uh but their speed and you know a lot of Corners aren't great tacklers even Dion wasn't a great tackler so they're out there for their speed and the cover guys but Rob what do you think of his chances uh of playing both ways in the NFL uh slim to none I I just think you have too many people who just aren't going to be open to it it's almost like the show hey Chris like a lot of people just you know were not that gung-ho about it either until you know the guy wind up doing it and then and the only way you could get him was he went to the angels and they were going to allow him to do it and obviously excelled I I think the NFL's tougher playing that many snaps on both sides of the ball a little bit different remember um I I just like like it used to be done we see it in what high school right guys play the best athletes they play both ways yeah but that's so yeah that's what I'm saying but it's but it's uh it's eight games Chris and it's not the same kind of thing if you're an NFL prospect you're so much better you know me no no no right that's what I'm saying I just I just don't think that it's G to happen I really don't yeah I mean Dion like I said did it a little bit remember Roy green uh he in in the uh 80s he did it for St Louis Cardinal a little bit um I agree with you that I mean can you do it and be I don't think somebody can be great at both Rob and if I'm Travis Hunter I get that he wants to try and I respect that but I would think Rob if he focuses on one and I do like him more as a receiver I mean cornerback is fine too I mean he's he's a top prospect at either position but but I think I I think he's a better receiver uh he obviously has great hands the catch he made a couple of week or was it last week um against North Dakota state was phenomenal I don't care that you're playing a division one daa school that was a great catch with the dude draped all over him and really I thought it was pass interference clearly um so I think he's probably a better receiver Prospect but if I'm Travis Hunter Rob I would rather be awesome at one position than just solid at both and I think it's going to be incredibly difficult for somebody to play in the NFL and be like all pro level or even Pro Bowl level consistent Pro Bowl perennial Pro Bowl level at both I just I I I I think that would be incredibly difficult to do just physically and even mentally yeah I I do think that uh trying to be great at both Chris is the issue and why not you want to be great right why not make a career and be great at the one thing you do the best or the one thing that you think you can Excel cuz the only way and and and I I know it's different than show but Chris if he was a c if he was a c pitcher he wouldn't be doing it you know what I mean like well he wouldn't be doing it he probably even if he had done it early like the last few years now he's hurt you know as far as pitching he probably would be done as a pitcher you know what I mean like even if they had let him do it his first few years he gets hurt has Tommy John and now he's he did have Tommy John didn't he sh yeah yeah and and he uh you know they probably wouldn't be thinking of him as a pitcher anymore Rob they probably just be saying you're gonna hit especially the season he's had right so yeah I look Dion makes a good point I mean we didn't think it was possible to do what shohi right is doing and he's done it so but I look as greatest Travis Hunter is I don't and this is no insult Rob I I don't think he's Deion Sanders like that level Deion Sanders arguably the greatest athlete in the America history arguably and I don't think this kid is that as great as he is so and Dion didn't do it both ways fulltime so I don't know Rob G where you at on this yeah I think it's unreasonable to expect him to be able to play both ways in the NFL especially when it's not like we haven't seen this even recently in college you know miles Jack UCLA played linebacker and running back uh Chris Gamble at Ohio State played receiver and Corner uh Charles Woodson W the right and then even with Travis Hunter specifically not only is it you know the skill level of being able to play at the highest level both offense and defense just being out there for 100 plus snaps the risk of injury is much higher so even last year his first year playing major college football because you know when he played Jackson State it wasn't the the the greatest athletes no no desp to them he missed a month with the last rate of kidney right it was a cheap but are we sure you're going to be able to make it through an entire season playing 130 snaps a game I I just don't think it's physically you know possible yeah yeah I'm I'm with you on that um if if somebody wants to give him a try at it fine but look the NFL and and guys see this at every position I mean division one football at the top level is incredible and then you weed out the guys in that and take the ultra Elite and that's what the next level is guys always talk about the speed in the NFL the size in the NFL it's not what he's facing right now it's not it's not even close and so you're talking about the the fastest guys the strongest guys the most skilled guys at the next level and to think he's going to play the entire game going both ways and be better than the defensive backs who are just focusing on that and better than the receivers who are just focusing on that that's a lot to ask that is a lot to ask is and I understand Chris you you want to do something and Dion's pushing for his guy and he's doing it in college not that many people are doing anything like that so I get all that but I it's a tall order and then Dion's like well people up there saying what he can't do or whatever but that's what what what that's where the the job of being an analyst Dion was an analyst we've never seen it it's not like me out of their minds why there's a reason people don't do it these are the best athletes in the world and Nobody Does it and that's what I'm saying like he making it like oh how can they say that telling what a another man can do well but that's that's what they ask us do we think we could you could do it right absolutely Abol you could disagree with their opinion but you can't rip on them for not thinking it could be done right right