After being called into Maroons camp this week Hunt was a Johnathan Thurston knee injury from being the first player since Allan Langer to be selected for Queensland from the Ipswich Jets and is still coming to terms with his sudden demotion from the NRL squad.
With Benji Marshall and Kodi Nikorima retained in the halves for Saturday evening's clash with the Raiders in Canberra, Hunt could yet spend another week with the Jets and in his column in Big League this week concedes it is not a position he imagined himself in at any stage in 2017.
