Travis Hunter and Henry Blackburn didn’t just hug it out. The CU Buffs and CSU Rams rivals bowled it out together this past Wednesday night.
“For the people that love to see negativity, this ain’t a negative video, man,” Hunter told Blackburn in a new video that featured the pair, which was posted to the CU two-way star’s YouTube channel early Thursday evening.
“Just making sure my guy is straight, checking with him,” Blackburn said on the video as he hugged Hunter.
The two then conversed on a bench and compared their background sand shared faith.
A CSU athletic department official confirmed to The Post on Thursday that Hunter, the Buffs’ two-way star, and Blackburn, the Boulder native and Rams safety, arranged a meting that could be filmed by Hunter’s social media team.
Hunter, a transfer from Jackson State, and Blackburn, a CSU defender who played his high school football at Fairview, were part of one of the most controversial plays of the first month of the college football season.
Late in the first quarter of the Rocky Mountain Showdown at Folsom Field, Blackburn hit Hunter late while the latter was running down an incomplete pass near the visitors’ sideline.
Hunter did not appear to see Blackburn before the contact was made. While the former returned to the game, he left after halftime and was taken to a local hospital for treatment of a lacerated liver.
“You know I never meant to hurt you,” Blackburn told Hunter in the video.
“When it happened, I’m like, ‘It’s not his fault. It’s football,’” Hunter replied.
Hunter missed the Buffs’ 42-6 loss at Oregon last weekend and is not expected to play when CU hosts No. 8 USC at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Blackburn and his family received threats during and after the Buffs’ overtime win over CSU. Hunter tried to cool the temperature last week by dismissing the idea that Blackburn’s hit was malicious in intent. New Buffs coach Deion Sanders condemned any death threats aimed at Blackburn during his weekly news conference two Tuesdays ago.
Blackburn said on the video he reached out to Hunter after the game to check in on him. At the end of the video, Hunter said Blackburn could choose the charity that would receive a donation, and the CSU defender elected to go with Realities For Children.
A Rams official confirmed reports that the pair were connected this week with the help of CSU cornerback Ron Hardge III and CU wideout Isaiah Hardge, Ron’s little brother.
