Colorado soccer two-way star Travis Hunter received the coveted Heisman Trophy on Dec. 14.
However the ensuing days have been riddled with controversy because the star school soccer participant’s relationship along with his fiancée Leanna Lenee was positioned underneath the microscope. Some followers took purpose at Lenee over her habits in movies which circulated on-line.
Hunter’s teammate, Sheduer Sanders, has since determined to handle the controversy. The Buffaloes quarterback recommended that critics ought to cease weighing in on the large receiver and defensive again’s private life.
“All y’all athletes, entertainers, artist and many others. if y’all real making an attempt to holla at Trav y’all know find out how to get in contact with him or somebody round,” Sanders wrote on X, on Sunday. “At this level y’all simply posting for the algorithm making an attempt to look cool.”
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Shedeur Sanders #2 and Travis Hunter #12 of the College of Colorado Buffaloes communicate with the media at Zouk Nightclub at Resorts World Las Vegas on July 21, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Louis Grasse/Getty Photographs)
At the least one social media video appeared to indicate Lenee remaining in her seat moments after Hunter was named the 2024 Heisman recipient. NFL icon and Colorado head coach Deion Sanders then appeared to immediate Lenee to face up. Lenee did finally briefly embrace Hunter earlier than rapidly sitting again down amid the viewers’s standing ovation.
Hunter and Lenee’s engagement was pubically confirmed earlier this 12 months.
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Different video footage appeared to indicate Lenee remaining seated whereas Hunter greeted and posed for pictures with followers at an occasion in New York Metropolis the day after the Heisman ceremony. Some followers tried to investigate Lenee’s demeanor throughout her time on the occasion and even recommended she was irritated.
Hunter addressed the state of affairs throughout a Twitch reside stream, saying his fiancée cried herself to sleep and consumed alcohol because of the backlash.
Colorado’s Travis Hunter holds the trophy after profitable the Heisman Trophy because the excellent participant in school soccer, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024, in New York. (Todd Van Emst/Heisman Belief through AP, Pool)
“You recognize the harm whenever you simply cry your self to sleep,” Hunter stated, earlier than including that he did not need Lenee to “fall asleep unhappy” after ingesting.
“I do know what I obtained. I do know my woman. My woman’s been with me for 5 years,” Hunter stated. “Y’all are simply now beginning to speak about me and simply now beginning to be with me. Come on, man.”
Colorado receiver Travis Hunter celebrates a landing in the course of the second half of an NCAA school soccer sport towards North Dakota State Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photograph/Jack Dempsey)
Final week, Lenee took to TikTok to handle the criticism.
“Persons are saying that I’m like, ‘What am I imagined to do? Simply sit right here?’ ” she stated on Dec. 16 in response to a clip. “That’s not what I stated, to begin with.”
On Monday, TMZ reported that Hunter determined to deactivate his Instagram account. Hunter has but to pubically reveal any particulars on his resolution.
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Hunter is projected to be one of many first gamers chosen within the 2025 NFL Draft. However, he’s nonetheless anticipated to play within the Alamo Bowl sport towards BYU.
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