Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter made waves at the 2025 NFL Draft before the first team was even on the board.
Hunter, 21, walked the red carpet on Thursday, April 24, at Lambeau Field in Green, Bay Wisconsin with his fiancée, Leanna Lenee. The wide receiver arrived at the venue donning a bright pink blazer he paired with a black button up and coordinating slacks. Lenee, for her part, stunned a black strapless floor-length gown.
The athlete was also joined by his mother, Ferrante Harris, who rocked a white pant suit for the occasion.
Hunter and Lenee had not been seen together in months following a roller-coaster year for the couple, who started dating in March 2022 and got engaged in February 2024.
When Travis Hunter won the 2024 Heisman Trophy, he had the best support system in fiancée Leanna Lenee. “Winner winner chicken dinner,” Lenee wrote via Instagram in December 2024, sharing pics from Hunter’s ceremony. She added in a follow-up post, “They mad, make them madder!!!” The Heisman is awarded annually to the top player in […]
Lenee caused a stir during the weekend of the Heisman Trophy presentation in December 2024 when videos circulated of her allegedly looking agitated at an Adidas pop-up shop in New York City while Hunter posed for photographs at the event.
At the Heisman ceremony itself, Lenee was also criticized by some for not standing up when Hunter was announced as the winner.
During a Twitch live stream the following day, Hunter revealed how the social media backlash had impacted Lenee.
“She’s still sleeping,” Hunter told his audience. “You know when you’re hurt but you just cry yourself to sleep? She drunk an OD amount tonight for no reason.”
He added, “It’s hard on me because I can’t even help her.”
Hunter explained all of the attention and criticism surrounding their relationship had impacted him, too.
“Y’all hate on me and then y’all go and hate on my girl,” Hunter said. “Bro, I feel the same thing that she feels. We’re inseparable, bro. We’re with each other. If she’s hurting, of course I’m going to be hurting. If I’m hurting, of course she’s going to be hurting.”
Hunter addressed Lenee’s critics, urging them to take a look in the mirror before coming for his fiancée.
“You ain’t never had no girl, so why y’all talking ‘bout me?” Hunter asked. “Find something else to talk about. You’re talking about my girl? Go talk about your girl. Go find a girl. Go find a life.”
He added, “I know what I got. I know my girl. My girl been with me for 5 years. Y’all are just now starting to talk about me.”
Deion Sanders offered to make sure Travis Hunter was primed and ready for marriage in a resurfaced video following relationship drama involving Hunter and his fiancée, Leanna Lenee. Sanders, the head football coach at the University of Colorado, joked about the seriousness of Hunter’s relationship with Lenee, who was still his girlfriend at the time. […]
Lenee addressed her critics head-on during a TikTok video posted on December 16.
“The things that I see people make up is truly crazy, because it’s not what happened,” she said. “I just think people are finding every single little thing and trying to make it something it’s not. Bird brain individuals are just accepting what they see online.”
Hunter and Lenee both deactivated their Instagram and TikTok accounts in late December 2024.
While Hunter has since reactivated both of his accounts, Lenee’s Instagram remains inactive. Lenee’s TikTok is active again, but she has not posted since November 2024.
