JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Travis Hunter will make his debut next week on the Jacksonville Jaguars defense.

Coach Liam Coen said the two-way excellence has been learning offensive and defensive scripts, but they chose to get him a pass in the Jaguars’ two-day rookie training camp that ended Saturday. Instead, the team will provide him with some defensive reps for the first time in the last week of the second phase of the offseason conditioning program.

“We finally made a decision and from yesterday to today, we hope to be able to clean up some of the things we might have missed yesterday () got extra reps on the offense of the ball, and he will start defending next week,” Cohen said, after about 90 minutes of workout.

The Jaguars' plan for Hunter - playing catcher and cornerback at Jackson State and Colorado - started offense because it was a more complex learning system and then gave him time to defensively in more comfortable situations. But the Hunter has already begun browsing the defensive scripts.

"You just have to get used to it," Hunter said. "It just has a lot of different types of calls, but other than that, defense is very easy. You just have to get used to the offense.

“Only longer calls and concepts are different (on the offense vs. the defense).

Despite spending so much time on the defensive script, Hunter has learned some coverage, Cohen said.

"He was able to dive and learn some of our three-point depth coverage, and if he had to be driven on the back of a three, what were the three big coverages outside, he already knew all of those calls," Cohen said. "So, at the end of the day, in terms of the ball's defense, communication. Technology and the basics, we're going to keep going on the harp, but in reality, it's actually going to be in the communication perspective with the others on the back end, and the rest are going to take care of themselves.

"…He obviously had to learn both sides of the ball. He was a football smart guy. The game made a lot of sense to him. So now is the extra time he's going to do to succeed in that time."

The defending Heisman Trophy champion played 1,481 snapshots and had 1,258 yards and 15 TD catches last season on Colorado’s defense. He contributed 113.9 per game.

The Jaguars traded with the Cleveland Browns to raise three locations to second place to pick the Hunter.