Is he just a player?

I’ve gotten hurt too many times to risk being hurt again, so I want to ask you guys- is he a player? :/
Ok, there’s this guy, I like him, I start shaking when I see him. He has the cutest smile I’ve ever seen – but there’s just one problem- I don’t know whether he’s a player. He hugs me a lot. His best friend (who’s a girl) asked me if I would ever go out with him, I said why, and she said because he really likes me. I said yeah, maybe, then I’d noticed that he was there and I said ‘I bet you’d say no!’ I said ‘no I’d probably say yeah’, and he smiled at me and hugged me and was like ‘really?’But here’s the thing, he hugs other girls. He said to his friend ‘we’re going out’ and looked at me I said ‘are we?’ Laughing, and he said ‘yeah!’ I said ‘I didn’t even know!’ (Laughing) and he said ‘yeah!’ Then I said ‘really?’ And he said ‘haha, I’m joking’ then, he said quietely ‘that’s the thing I don’t know if I like her that way’, meaning he’s not sure if he likes me as a friend or more. He smiles at me a lot everytime I see him! But he just hugs every girl. He told my friend that I like him(he doesn’t know that I do! I’m shy for real life!) And then I asked him why he said that and he said ‘because you do!’ Then he hugged me for about 20 seconds xD

So is he just a player? I don’t wanna get hurt.