Ian Rapoport mentioned during a radio interview with 95.3 WDAE that he could see the Buccaneers being among the interested teams in free agent RB Kareem Hunt this offseason.
“I would expect teams like the Bucs with big time running back needs and the propensity to make a splash in free agency to be linked to him,” Rapoport said, via PewterReport.com. “These decisions to bring a guy like Kareem Hunt in are made by the owner. That’s where it comes down to it, do the Glazers say: ‘We are okay having this guy in the building, given what he has basically been proven to have done.‘”
On Wednesday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters that he’s hopeful the league’s investigation into Hunt will be wrapped up soon.
“Kareem Hunt I think everyone knows that he is, that issue is under investigation, has been,” Goodell said, via NFL.com. “He is a free agent. If he is signed by a club, the clubs understand he’ll go on the Commissioner’s Exempt List at that point in time until the discipline process has concluded whether there is discipline or not discipline we will finish the investigation and then make a determination. So that hopefully will happen soon, but we haven’t concluded the investigation and we’re working to do that. There has been a tremendous amount of progress though in that investigation over the last I’d say 30 to 60 days.”
Adam Schefter of ESPN reported a few weeks ago that Hunt will likely be back in the NFL and have a job “sooner rather than later.”
According to Schefter, multiple teams have expressed interest in Hunt, who has been undergoing anger-management counseling daily after a video surfaced showing him shoving and kicking a woman.
Sources have told Schefter that Hunt appears to be making progress with the counseling, which has led to some teams expressing interest in him.
As of now, Hunt is on the commissioner’s exempt list and a suspension from the league is expected to be handed down before free agency.
Hunt, 23, is a former third-round pick of the Chiefs back in 2017. He was in the second year of his four-year, $3.263-million contract and set to make base salaries of $555,000 and $645,000 over the next two years of the agreement when the Chiefs waived him in December.
In 2018, Hunt has appeared in 11 games for the Chiefs and rushed for 824 yards on 181 carries (4.6 YPC) to go along with 26 receptions for 378 yards receiving and 14 total touchdowns.
We have him featured in our Top 50 – 2019 NFL Free Agents list.
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