Jones & Keefe: Tom E. Curran on if the Travis Hunter dream is dead

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00:00Is the Travis Hunter dream dead?

00:02It seems like a lot of people now believe he's going to Cleveland.

00:05Do you think that dream is dead?

00:06And how interested would the Patriots be, even if he were there?

00:11That's a great question.

00:13It's something that I'm starting to try and prod today on Quick Slants.

00:17And with my soon-to-be-submitted poll on the platform X,

00:22I'm trying to prod Patriots fans to the idea that maybe they're not going to get the pony.

00:27Okay?

00:28But maybe you can get a really nice bicycle instead.

00:33Because I do think that you should start to anticipate that Travis Hunter and Abdul Carter,

00:38who are far and away the two best players on everybody's big board,

00:44are going to be gone by the time the Patriots stick.

00:47So with that said, the Patriots need to be prepared for that.

00:52Would they take Travis Hunter if he was there?

00:54I presume he would because he's pretty much everybody's number one consensus big board guy.

01:01If you look at every analyst, everybody, and everybody's looking at each other's paper on this crap anyway.

01:07But it's Travis Hunter and Abdul Carter.

01:09So it's less than 50%, I would say, that he's going to sit there.

01:16But that means that if those two guys go as what qualifies as elite players in this year's draft,

01:25and the only two elite players,

01:27and Cam Ward goes one,

01:29and he's probably around 20 on most people's big boards,

01:33and Shadar Sanders isn't even in anyone's top 20 on the big board,

01:37you're still going to get the third best player in the draft.

01:40And a lot of them play positions that the Patriots need.

01:42So it's not worth stomping upstairs on Christmas morning if you don't get those two.