Field Yates labels Travis Hunter as 'the best player in the entire 2025 draft class'

Field Yates maintained his take that Colorado’s Travis Hunter is the best prospect in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Yates was asked on ‘Get Up’ on Thursday about Hunter being able to play both ways at the next level. He thinks that he absolutely could with him being a Pro Bowl-caliber player at both wide receiver and cornerback.

“I’m not putting it past him. 115 snaps per game last season from Travis Hunter requires not just rare athletic skill but also rare determination from a young man who has all the football character you could possibly ask for. On top of that, I think he has a pathway to a Pro Bowl skillset on either side of the ball in the NFL,” said Yates. “That sounds like gaudy expectations for a kid who hasn’t even found out which team he’s going to play for but this is a unicorn.”

“To me, he’s the best player in the entire 2025 draft class,” Yates stated.

This is the conversation that will continue to surround Hunter as heads to the NFL.

Hunter made his name for himself in college by being a two-way star in Boulder. That’s especially after this season where, at receiver, he posted 96 receptions for 1,258 yards and 15 touchdowns and, at cornerback, he had 36 tackles, 11 deflections, and four interceptions. That won him The Heisman Trophy and Bednarik Award, earned him honors as an All-American, and put him as a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award.

It’s the most interesting topic for the most interesting player in this draft with Hunter. It’s also what makes him the best amongst them all this year to Yates.

Hunter addresses doubters on playing both ways: ‘I’m just different’

Most experts expect Travis Hunter to play on one side of the ball at the next level.

However, when a reporter asked Hunter what position he himself expects to play, Hunter refused to limit himself to a single position.

“I did some meetings at receiver. I did some meetings at DB. So, it’s still up in the air,” Hunter said. “They say, ‘Nobody has ever done it the way I do it’. I tell them, ‘I’m just different.'”