Hunte started his rugby league career with Eastmoor, and was selected for the BARLA Young Lions tour of Australia in 1989.

In November 1997, Hull signed Hunte, along with his St Helens teammates Steve Prescott and Simon Booth, for a combined fee of £350,000.

[12] Hunte was selected to go on the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, and would play for the Lions in the 1992 Rugby League World Cup final at Wembley in October, though unfortunately it was his dropped ball which led to débuting Australian centre Steve Renouf scoring the only (and winning) try of the match.

In the 1997 post season, Hunte was selected to play for Great Britain on the wing in all three matches of the Super League Test series against Australia.

[3][4] His speed was shown in the third test when he ran down Aussie speedster Andrew Ettingshausen over a 70m run after giving him a 10m start.