Ten days before Travis Hunter is likely to make his NFL debut, he’s welcoming a new member to his own family’s roster.
The two-way Jaguars rookie and his wife, Leanna Lenee, announced on Wednesday the birth of their first child, a son.
Hunter announced the news via a YouTube video entitled “Dear Son…” that shared some of Lenee’s pregnancy journey, starting from a positive pregnancy test. At the end of February, she wrote a note that she had dreamed that the baby would be a boy — which the couple confirmed in March.
The video also showed Hunter, donning a new Jacksonville hat, after he was drafted by the Jaguars at the end of April.
“You gonna come up and you’re going to be like me and you’re going to get drafted by Jacksonville,” Hunter said with a wide smile.
The end of the video, which was just a blank screen, appeared to include audio of the moment the baby boy was born.
Hunter, taken No. 2 overall by the Jaguars after the Browns traded down in the draft, has had a busy year-plus.
He won the Heisman Trophy as a standout at Colorado before getting married to Lenee at the end of May in a ceremony that reportedly took place in Tennessee.
Hunter is now less than two weeks away from his first NFL regular season, when he is expected to remain a two-way player as both a receiver and defensive back.
“There hasn’t been any shift on that front,” general manager James Gladstone told reporters Wednesday. “We expect him to be who we know him to be, and that’s somebody who impacts both sides of the football. We can’t wait to see that on Sundays, and one Monday night, this season.”
The Buffaloes product missed the final two preseason games with an upper-body injury, but Gladstone expects Hunter to play in the Sept. 7 opener against the Panthers.
“He’s on the grass today and rolling full speed,” Gladstone told reporters Wednesday.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
