Scott Hanson: Travis Hunter should focus on WR, spotlight as DB (2025)

The “NFL Red Zone” host spoke to Yahoo Sports’ Woody Wommack about this year’s draft, the players he’s most excited to see at the pro level and his own personal plans for 2025. Scott joined Yahoo Sports on behalf of Lowe’s.

Video Transcript

Here with Scott Hansen joining us on behalf of Lowe's and the amazing green room that Lowe's put together.

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This thing's crazy.

Woody, good to be with you here.

Yes, indeed, in the NFL draft Green Room built by Lowe's.

Millions of football fans trust Lowe's with their homes.

The NFL trusts Lowe's to build the, uh, the delivery room, if you will, for the birth of, of NFL careers.

It's very exciting.

I mean, we know you've been paying attention to the draft process.

Give us a player you're excited to see that maybe on Sundays, you know, if, if you're hosting a certain show, you'll be talking about him.

Let's start with a guy who's not gonna have a very long wait before he gets that phone call and Travis Hunter.

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We have not seen a player like him come into the NFL in a long while, maybe ever.

He says he can play both ways full time.

I'm, I'm a bit skeptical that he can do it full time at the highest level.

I'm a bit skeptical that whoever drafts him.

We'll use him in that capacity, but I'll tell you this, I absolutely think we'll be showing him on red zone impacting the game on both sides of the football.

I would play him at wide receiver.

I would, I would make him practice at wide receiver, learn the playbook, learn dynamic NFL route running and let his physical gifts dominate the game on the offensive side of the football and then.

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I would take him and say, Travis, you got 10 snaps, 12 snaps.

We get to 3rd and 8, 3rd and 10.

When we're on defense, you're going in the game and there's Justin Jefferson, cover him.

There's Aman Ras Saint Brown, cover him.

There's CD Lamb, cover him one on one.

You don't need to know the defense for that.

Follow that cat all the way around the field.

How awesome would that be to be a two-way player in that.

Capacity.

That would be incredible.

That's like, hey, look, you got your coaching hat.

I know you play.

It's easy to do it from the armchair.

OK, so you mentioned red zone.

So wait, are you officially back?

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Well we know we haven't heard any announcements.

Yes, many people are speculating there have been reports, some inaccurate, some semi-accurate out there.

All I can share with you is, uh, negotiations are ongoing.

The NFL has told me they want me back.

I certainly want to be back as host of Red Zone.

16 seasons of what's been called the greatest football show there is.

We have to come to an agreement and we're, we're not there yet, but negotiations are ongoing and I'm, I'm very hopeful.

So I don't know how much you've dug in.

I'm sure you've done a ton of research on the draft, but you're up there day 4 to 7.

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Is there a name that.

It's called and you're like, oh, I know like you're, you're puka the cos of the world or something that you've got your eye on.

I haven't identified anyone just yet.

I think you need to see the fit with the player.

The, the interesting thing about day three is rounds 4 through 7, just because you see the dreams come true of the big name prospects who everyone's been talking about in the first round quarterbacks and, and the big edge rush, pass rushers and whatnot on night one.

4 through 7.

That's where you build a team.

That's where you build a playoff contender, build a playoff team, build a Super Bowl team.

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It, it'll be fun to see it happen right here in Green Bay.

All right, thanks for hanging out with us on behalf of Lois.

We love it.

Great energy so we got so much, you know, it's football, man.

If you can't get fired up about this, what are we doing?

Good to be with you, Woody.