Travis Hunter and his wife Leanna Lenee have welcomed their first child, a baby boy.
The couple revealed the happy news in a YouTube video on Wednesday, Aug. 27, surprising fans since they had not previously shared that they were expecting.
The nearly three-minute clip opened with the couple discovering they were expecting. Lenee held up a pregnancy test while Hunter filmed their reactions in the mirror, before the two broke into a happy dance.
Fans also saw the couple’s ultrasound images, along with a sign that read “It’s a boy.”
Lenee explained that she had predicted the gender weeks earlier after a dream about a curly-haired son, which she documented in her phone.
“Today is March 26, and this was the dream I had Feb. 28,” she said in the video. “I knew it was gonna be a boy. So cool.”
The video then jumped to everyday moments, including Hunter brushing his teeth while being told to “say hi to the baby.”
At one point, Lenee could be heard saying, “Your dad got drafted,” as the camera showed the NFL rookie on draft day. Hunter joked that he hoped his son would one day get picked by Jacksonville too.
When asked for a message to his unborn child, he kept it simple: “You gotta be better than me.”
The announcement ended with emotional hospital room audio of Lenee’s delivery. After the baby’s first cries, Hunter proudly declared, “That baby look just like me!”
Hunter and Lenee tied the knot in May at The Barn at Faith Farms in Tennessee.
Their relationship has faced criticism in the past, but Hunter has been outspoken in defending his wife.
“Y’all hate on me and then y’all go hate on my girl. I feel the same pain that she feel,” the Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback said in a Twitch video. “We’re unseperable [sic], we’re with each other. If she hurting, of course I’m going to be hurting.”
