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Travis Hunter backflip dances as Savannah Bananas VIP player before NFL draft

The presumptive top 5 NFL draft pick grooves with the Savannah Bananas and proves with the first pitch that baseball is certainly not in his future.
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Travis Hunter has been under scrutiny ever since he won the Heisman Trophy.

Now with the 2025 NFL Draft just around the corner at the Green Bay Packers' football cathedral Lambeau Field April 24-26, the former Colorado Buffaloes wide receiver-cornerback star is amping up his profile in the best way possible.

RELATED: Where has Travis Hunter's fiancée Leanna Lenee been leading up to NFL draft?

Travis Hunter
Savannah Bananas/Instagram

The Savannah Bananas are the hottest thing in baseball besides Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers, making themselves a must-see attraction by blending sports and entertainment much like the Harlem Globetrotters did with previous generations,

First, the good.

The 21 year old showed off his fantastic dance moves to lead a Bananas score celebration, rocking his Heisman pose into a Michael Jackson-like moonwalk backflip.

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Now the bad.

The first pitch wasn't embarrassing. But mich like Houston Texans quarterback CJ Stroud, it's obvious that the West Palm Beach, Florida native never played much baseball growing up. It also awkwardly counted towards the game, and the slow-pitch softball-like throw missed the strike zone.

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Hunter has kept a lower profile ever since his fiancée Leanna Lenee got unfairly bullied on social media when the Deion Sanders protege took home the Heisman Trophy. It's still so bad that Lenee has not returned to Instagram and Hunter does not allow comments.

In the official Savannah Bananas Instagram carousel post, the caption read, "He’s no stranger to the big stage. This one just had a little more yellow 😉"

The biggest stage is right around the corner with the NFL draft. If Hunter lands with the New York Giants like many mock drafts suggest, the glaring spotlight will be unavoidable.

Travis Hunter, Savannah Bananas
Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

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Matthew Graham has over 20 years of media experience and oversees The Athlete Lifestyle On SI. He has had previous leadership roles at NBC Sports, Yahoo, and USA TODAY, where he co-founded For The Win (named Best Mobile Site by Digiday). He has also written for ESPN, Cosmopolitan, US Weekly, People, E! Online, and FHM, covering major sports and entertainment events like the Oscars, the Golden Globes, NBA Finals, Super Bowl, and winning the Yahoo Superstar Award for coverage of the Olympics.

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