Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz discuss how the Colorado defensive back/wide receiver’s ability to excel on both sides of the ball should make him the overwhelming favorite for this year’s award. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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I think your point about Travis Hunter is very well taken because he's doing something that nobody in college football has done or can do.

He doesn't just play both sides.

He plays both sides at an incredibly high level and could be drafted at either corner or wide receiver and play either position in the NFL.

If I had a Heisman vote today, it would not be for Dylan Gay.

My vote would be run in and sprinted in with Travis Hunter written in huge block letters on the card because I don't think wins and losses are a quarterback stat.

I don't think wins and losses are a wide receiver stat.

I don't think wins and losses are an individual stat.

There are 53 active players in an NFL roster.

We do the same thing every time we're like, well, this quarterback won this game or lost this game.

I hate it.

You're talking about 100 scholarship kids, they're all working their ass off trying to get the A win on the field and we want to make it about one player.

I refuse to do that.

To me.

What I'm asking myself is quite simply this.

Who was the one?

Oh my God, can't miss impacted games, but also just did things that had you shaken into your pots all week player.

Who's the guy that you spent all week saying, I don't know if we can win this game because we have to take on Ashton.

Gee, that's a fair answer.

We have to take on Dylan Gabriel.

It is a fair answer because he's the quarterback.

But there are other weapons there to me, Ashton Gent and Travis Hunter stand out because they are what I associate the fear factor, the game wreckers for their respective teams.

And for Travis Hunter to be a game wrecker on two sides of the ball for him to not be the Heisman favorite shows the absolute stupidity and irrelevance of the Heisman and, uh, in a Colorado game the other day, ESPN put up the graphics a little lower thirds for impact players, offense and defense, impact player for Colorado offensively, Travis Hunter, uh, impact player for Colorado, defensively, Travis Hunter when they go into their practice, when they get their first group of film on Monday.

When they get everything that they're gonna start digesting for the week, the offensive side of the ball, the offensive coordinator is gonna come in and say, who's our game record?

And the answer is gonna be Travis Hunter.

We got to get around this corner.

Do not let this corner get involved in the, at the same day at the same time, the same conversation from the defensive coordinator is gonna be who's the game record that we can't let beat us?

And the answer is gonna be Travis Hunter at wide receiver to have the guy that both sides of the ball are changing their practices around to try and stop.

That's Heisman worthy.

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