Is Travis Hunter Playing Today? (injury Update, Betting Impact For Jaguars Vs. Raiders)

Jacksonville Jaguars rookie Travis Hunter suffered a non-contact wounded successful believe connected Thursday and was promptly placed connected injured reserve by nan team.

That knocks Hunter retired of Week 9 against nan Las Vegas Raiders and astatine slightest nan adjacent 4 games for nan team. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Hunter's ACL is intact, but nan rookie still needs to acquisition much testing connected his injury.

The Athletic's Michael Silver reported connected Saturday nighttime that nan Jaguars are assured that Hunter didn't suffer immoderate semipermanent damge to his knee connected Thursday. Still, nan squad has nary volition of rushing him back.

Hunter -- nan No. 2 wide prime successful nan 2025 NFL Draft -- has played some discourtesy and defense for nan
Jaguars this season. As a receiver, he had conscionable gotten going successful Week 7, catching nan first people of his profession against nan Los Angeles Rams, reeling successful 8 of his 14 targets for 101 yards arsenic well.

Overall, Hunter has 28 catches for 298 yards and a people connected 45 targets this season.

With nan young two-way prima out, Jacksonville will person to look elsewhere successful nan passing game. Here's really nan SI Betting squad is betting connected nan Jags successful this matchup pinch nan Raiders.

Odds via DraftKings Sportsbook.

Earlier this week, SI's NFL betting insider Iain MacMillan shared why he's fading Trevor Lawrence pinch nan Jags shorthanded astatine nan receiver spot:

Trevor Lawrence UNDER 22.5 Completions (-130)

Trevor Lawrence is having acold worse a play than you think. He's nan third-worst amongst starting quarterbacks successful expected points added positive completion percent complete expected, pinch only Dillon Gabriel and Cam Ward ranking worse. Let's return advantage of that by taking nan UNDER connected his completions astatine 22.5. He has grounded to spell complete this number successful 4 of his 7 starts already this season.

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