Even Jacksonville head coach Doug Pederson was impressed with what he saw. But Walker is a Trey Flowers type who is getting hyped as a Reggie White type. Which standouts are still on the board entering Day 2? If drafting was easy, everyone would do it. Instead of those two, the honor - or burden - of going first overall went to Georgia defensive end Travon Walker. He's No. Its part of being the overall pick, right? "I know I can get it done . Im ready to play ball, try to get the win, get the job done.. 1 overall, will he be another Courtney Brown? With Jordan Davis, Nakobe Dean, and Lewis Cine on the defensive side, players such as Travon Walker go unnoticed sometimes. . Hes singled up on Walker on the inside, and you can guess how that turned out with a decisive bull-rush, and the guard on his butt. Demetrius Harvey isthe Jacksonville Jaguars reporterfor the Florida Times-Union. The NCAA has a pressure-sack that I don't think the NFL does, where the NCAA will credit a sack cleaned up by the team that I think the NFL credits to the tackler. . or is this ANOTHER case. Walker may have to deal with the same pressure a quarterback would, but the expectations are high and his ability or inability to create plays on defense could dictate where his narrative flows. It's still an abomination. The Buccaneers blitzed on a league-high 40.8% of their snaps, and had a pressure rate of 28.6%. Sign up for the Touchdown Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. Its a game weve been playing ever since we were 7 years old, so its no pressure to just continue what Ivebeen doing my whole life.. Dean and fellow linebacker Channing Tindall (26 pressures in 2021, exactly as many as Devonte Wyatt, who the Packers took with the 28th pick) were lust as likely to bring pressure as anybody from the line was. But Kirby Smart said all season this was a player-led team. He's going to be fun to watch, I think, all season.'. Before and after the pick, one TV draft analyst after another warned that the Jaguars would have been better off passing on Walker with the top pick. Those are the highest sack rates of any FCS starting quarterback in the Sports Info Solutions Datahub, dating back to 2016. The Georgia Bulldogs were carried to their national title with their defense. Alabama's Evan Neal and Mississippi State's Charles Cross, two of the top three tackle prospects in the 2022 class, tied for 14th at 1.3% (against much stouter competition of course). South Alabama's Jalen Tolbert is a long, lean boundary threat who averaged 17.6 yards per reception over his college career. "We built that connection through training camp. recorded 20 or more pressures, so Walker can be forgiven for not having outstanding pass-rushing metrics: sometimes Devonte Wyatt, Nakobe Dean, Jordan Davis, underclassman Jalen Carter or someone else just got to the quarterback first. Travon Walker's draft stock has soared in recent weeks, and the Georgia defensive standout has emerged as the consensus favorite to be the first overall pick in the 2022 NFL draft. Walker and Hall are RB1 and RB2 on most boards. 2022 Prediction Wrap-Up: Did Anyone Believe in the Chiefs? In Johnson's case, a low blown block rate helps flesh out his scouting report. Walker is currently projected to get around that number, with an over/under set at 6.5 sacks, according to DraftKings Sportsbook. Join our linker program. In reality, Hutchinson went second overall to his hometown Detroit Lions, while Evan Neal was picked up by the New York Giants after they traded with Chicago. Anyway, we all know that Hutchinson can play. Two picks later, the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted T.J. Watt, now the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year. It was more eventful out at the Jaguars ' training camp practice No. Thus far, the rookie OLB is already taking to teaching from plenty of those that surround him. We want to be able to put our players in position to make plays and present a picture to the offense where maybe you dont know where a blitz is coming from. Willis and Howell are both gifted runners who can be forgiven for holding the ball too long now and then, but a double-digit sack rate is not "now and then.". Veteran defensive lineman Arden Key, who was signed this offseason during free agency in March. I don't think the NCAA officially tracks sacks-allowed. Robinson caught 18 of his 23 deep receptions when lined up in the slot. Anyone who takes Smith in the first round had better be able to redshirt him in 2022. But still, there are those pesky pressure stats. This is my first training camp, and like I said, going through this training camp is totally different from college," he said. The comments below have not been moderated, By Original Pick: Travon Walker, DE, Georgia. speaking to Sportscenter's Scott Van Pelt, Mel Kiper releases first mock draft ahead of 2022 NFL Draft, NFL Draft: Todd McShay releases first 2022 mock draft, Three-round 2022 NFL mock draft 1.0: Bears reunite former Ohio State WR with Justin Fields in Round 2, You DON'T draft production, you draft TRAITS - Field Yates on Travon Walker pick | 2022 NFL Draft - YouTube, Mel Kiper Jr. RIPS Jaguars for drafting Travon Walker at No. Where the Jaguars reached, if they did, was on Walkers athletic potential. The No. What we can do is look at the film and (ask) whats production. Training camp has gone well for Jacksonville Jaguars outside linebacker Travon Walker, the first-overall pick in April's draft. Against Alabama, he did not display the techniques required to knife through the double. Kirby Smart isnt exactly stupid when it comes to defense if he was putting Walker in all those places, Walker was going to have to succeed. Travon Walker: 10.1% win rate, 34 pressures. Walker came to the University of Georgia as a five-star prospect. Picture Information. The Jags turned in their card, and Walkers name was on it. For small towns, football means everything and that has been the case for Walker, and there's no reason for him to change his view on it or how he operates during his daily routines within the sport. Same with Virginia's Dontayvian Wicks, who tied Addison. Last season, per Pro Football Focus, Walker lined up 11 times in the A-gap (either over center or between the center and the guard), 105 times in the B-gap (over the guard or between the guard and tackle), 97 times over the tackle, and 366 times on the edge. Weight 275. 1 pick overall in the NFL draft on Thursday. Now we're all like, "yeah, they're both fine, wake me up when some team drafts them on Friday so I can decide if they're worth a fantasy pickup." NFL DRAFT TRACKER: Analysis on every pick in the first round. PHOTOS: NFL Draft 2022 No. Missouris right guard is in a very, very, very bad place here, and he probably knows it pre-snap. He finished the season with eight total pressures. And this week, we were reminded of the Dallas Cowboys' decision near the end of the first round in 2017, when they drafted defensive end Taco Charlton with the 28thpick overall. Through four preseason games, Walker has been rated as one of the highest-graded rookie defenders, according to Pro Football Focus with a grade of 71.1. Allgeier is a 230-pound bruiser who led the nation with 45 broken tackles but also added 30 missed tackles. However, the positive part about the loss is that their starters played well. Walkthrough just likes pass-rushers who, you know, rush the passer a little more effectively. Of course, Walker has players on his own team that he can learn from. Think of him as a three-level playmaker when lined up inside: he can do screen stuff, work the intermediate middle, or be effective in the 15- to 20-yard range. Also, the top prospect should lead his team to lots of lopsided wins, taking away potential sack opportunities. That much was clear when he was speaking with the media during the team's joint practices with the Atlanta Falcons last week. Walkers monster workout at the combine included an uncanny 4.51-second 40-yard dash time for a man measuring 6-5, 272 pounds. Yikes. Please see our Contributors and Sources page for data source details. And he did it all for a BYU offense that lost Zach Wilson and others last season and could have been expected to backslide offensively. He has outstanding measurables. His stance. Walker really isnt an edge bender per se at least, not at this point in his career. 1 overall. "It's a game we've been playing since we were 7 years old. "Blown blocks" are much more subjective than pressures or hurries. Its a different deal, and a different set of defenses. This fire zone concept is one example. In reply to Another interesting wrinkle by Travis. His high-school graduating class was so small the commencement ceremony lasted just over an hour. I get the talent, I see the versatility, I see the quickness outside,' Kiper said. During camp, Walker learned quickly how long the upcoming season will be. Weight: 275 lbs. Tolbert faced Sun Belt competition and dealt with some early-career knee injuries that might scare off some teams, But I like him better than several of the somewhat similar mid-round deep threats (Nevada's Romeo Doubs, Cincinnati's Alec Pierce) in this class. 2022 Illusions Travon Walker Aidan Hutchinson Gold Rookie Dual Patch Auto #4/10. The two have for lack of a better phrase been attached at the hip. Football Outsiders content published by ESPN. Murphy is going to be viewed a lot like Travon Walker was last year: a blank canvas with limitless potential. Per ESPN Stats & Info, new Jaguars DE Travon Walker is the first player selected first overall in the common draft era (since 1967) that never made an All-Conference or All-American team in college. 34 nationally) in 2019, Walker committed to Georgia over Alabama, Clemson and other big-name programs. Moving forward, Walker will hope to help take the Jaguars' defense to new heights, something he said was attainable due to the players already on the team, along with players the franchise brought in during the offseason. Its a process, but he checked the boxes as we went through the process. And a lot of other measurables that make Walker, 21, so alluring when considering his upside. Walker has taken full advantage of that guidance. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. He's projected as a Day 3 draft pick. This is a position of need for the Jaguars, as well. DOB 2000-12-18 ( 22.1) Height 6' 5". The Wolverines had David Ojabo and Aidan Hutchinson at the edges, and they were more likely to get weird in coverage. Theres an entirely legitimate argument to be made that Walker benefited to an insane degree by the fact that he was surrounded with generational first-round defensive talent all around him. Touchdown Wire's Laurie Fitzpatrick goes to the All-22 to break down the best and worst reps of the NFL's top rookie cornerbacks. It takes a lot more than just good high school relations to get to a national championship game. $3.25 + $4.75 shipping. Willis gets bagged for his sacks against Army, but Army got Kyler Murray, too, and Oklahoma was stacked compared to Liberty. But ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. knows who will be blocking for the mystery QB, based on his latest first-round mock for the 2023 . Johnson became a Senior Bowl legend when he practiced his center snaps in the rain between squad practices, when most NFL writers were shivering in their rental cars with the defrosters blasting and wipers thumping. Jake Fenner For Dailymail.Com Dean had a moment similar to Walkers. In reply to A post-fumble completion for by Travis. but five quarterback pressures per game in a Power 5 conference? Showed his length, his athleticism, his power. Luke Easterling breaks down how Travon Walker fits with the Jacksonville Jaguars and details his ceiling and floor as a prospect. In reply to How on earth did Bryce Young by Aaron Brooks G, In reply to How on earth did Bryce Young by Travis. With last years No. 'I'm talking 9.5 career sacks, 13 career tackles for a loss, 1 career forced fumble. . April 28, 2022 8:21 pm ET. Hometown: Thomaston, Georgia. Jaguars veteran outside linebacker Josh Allen has taken the rookie under his wing throughout the offseason and heading into the regular season. Caldwell and his staff can line Lloyd up as an off-ball run defender and pass defender, and move him down to the front to provide edge pressure. Some might cringe at the way Dean spoke to Tindall. I have no idea how these are handles; because the NCAA doesn't track sacks allowed, it's not clarified within the statistician manual. Pac-12? Walker will simply have to learn how to do more than push and grapple in these situations. It's interesting that despite Ridley how little we hear about daily fantasy, which combines all the worst aspects of both fantasy football and sports gambling in an obnoxious environment that directly channels profits into NFL ownership, because it carries an enormous risk to both corrupt player performance and for management to manipulate players directly in order to maximize back-channels because the front end is assured. His ability to create pressure from multiple alignments opens plenty of doors for him at the next level. Travon Walker is a 21-year old American professional football player who plays at the Right Outside Lineback (ROLB) position for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL.. Travon Walker on Madden 23. Even though he was right, Kiper was not so happy with the pick when speaking to Sportscenter's Scott Van Peltafter the draft,citing Walker's lack of production at the college level. If Walker ends up not panning out, he might not be the main problem. "Hes one of those guys whos giving me information, and its for me to take the information that hes giving me and try to use it.," Walker said of Allen. Pressures are an unofficial stat (some sources list Hutchinson with 74) that can be hard/expensive to come by, but they are pressures: an easy concept for everyone from fans to general managers to understand and accept as a useful data point. Walker has a respectable 19 tackles, and is one of 13 Bulldogs with at least one sack (2.5 for losses of 16 yards). This is basic information that the NCAA decides to lump among rushing data like it's still 1954 or something. The above line graph shows his Madden 23 Rating Weekly Movement while . Travis Etienne Jr 2021 Playbook ROOKIE Patch 11/25. Once Saturday afternoon arrives, NFL teams can do a heck of a lot worse than drafting the guy who led the nation in hurries and led a Power 5 conference in sacks. Hall tops Walker in our BackCAST projections, and nothing about finishing a narrow second to him in BMT% contradicts that. Of the analysts, four of the five had him going first overall, and all of them had him going top five. 44 Travon Walker Position: DL Height: 6-5 Weight: 275 Class: Junior Hometown: Thomaston, Ga. High School: Upson-Lee BioStatsHistorical MediaWePlayed Moments Bio Bio Stats Historical Media WePlayed Moments Career Highs * 5 tackles vs. Kentucky, 2021 * 1 QB Sack vs. six teams (recent: Michigan, 2021) * 2 TFL vs. Missouri, 2021 Georgia Bulldogs defensive lineman Travon Walker recorded 2.5 sacks last season. Liberty quarterback Malik Willis led the nation with 51 sacks taken in 2021. It could be assumed the true reason why people are hesitant about Walker is the perceived amount of work that has to happen to get him to an NFL level. It's also reflected for the non mobile ones like Strong who has negative run EPA and total rush yards. 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Last season, the Jaguars blitzed on 31.5% of their snaps, and had a pressure rate of 24.2%. However, it's the insane testing performances that quantified Walker's on-tape athleticism that has seen . The crucial question here is: Do broken and missed tackles commute? Part of what made Georgia's 2021 defense as dominant as it was revolved around the depth of their defense when it came to rushing the quarterback. Travon Walker had 3.5 sacks last season and 3.5 sacks over his career. Yet it would have been even more impressive if Pederson went on record to guarantee that in choosing Walker over seemingly more polished edge rushers Aidan Hutchinson and Kayvon Thibodeaux picked second and fifth, respectively, by the Detroit Lions and New York Giants it is a power move that they will never regret. $17.99 + $5.00 shipping. 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The 6-foot-5 and 272 pound Walker showcased his strength, speed and athleticism at the NFL Scouting Combine. This is a vile pressure look. Welcome to the NFL. Walkers combination of wingspan and upper-body strength will make NFL guards wary of that first move. As a true freshman, he played in 12 of 14 games and . Former Georgia defensive lineman Travon Walker on the field after being presented a National Championship ring in the first half of Georgia's spring NCAA college football game, Saturday, April. He could very well be the top corner in the league for years to come. He's more of an old-school defensive end than a pure edge rusher, someone who can have an impact on run defense and do all sorts of little things to help a defense. "I think the more snaps I get, the more comfortable I become," said Walker, who's no longer primarily a third-down performer. Walker led the Bulldogs with 32 pass pressures. It's frustrating that such a simple, important data point is not free and one click away for everyone. but Smith is not at all like Travon Walker. The best advice for handling the expectations? 1 / 10 3 defensive tackle in the country for the 2019 class, per 247 Sports. When you have a player with athletic traits like this, you want to see those traits turned into production. Georgia Bulldogs ER Travon Walker Photo: USA Today Sports Images NFL Draft - Michigan edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson finished second in the nation with 70 pass pressures in 2021. The Football Database has sack data on individual player pages, including sack yards lost. Here are the pressure rates for the biggest-name edge rushers in the 2022 draft class. Detroit Lions DE Aidan Hutchinson-- the No. Curtis Compton / Curtis.Compton@ajc.com. 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Hutchinson, meanwhile, had 14 sacks for Michigan last season, and Thibodeaux brought down the quarterback 19 times in three seasons at Oregon. What possible use could that morsel of information have? The write-up in the NFL Guide for Statisticians is a little confusing, but the controlling language is on page 32: When a player (passer) fumbles behind the line of scrimmage while attempting to pass, charge him with a sack and a fumble, and all yardage lost as yards lost attempting to pass (sack yardage.) Travon Walker was first overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft out of nowhere, he impressed in the Hall of Fame Game, but can the defensive lineman silence the doubters. When you have a 6-foot-5, 272-pound defensive lineman who runs a 4.51 40-yard dash and a three-cone drill time of 6.89 seconds (which would be pretty good for a receiver or cornerback), that was going to get people sitting up and taking notice. Is Walker ready for this? How do you sort that out? With Smarts defense, as Walker said, youre dealing with alternate responsibilities. Please check your email for a confirmation. Those who are aware of general manager Trent Baalkes history know that hes more than fine betting on athletic projects, and in the end, thats what happened. One of those dreams is to supplant teammate Josh Allen as the franchise's rookie sack leader. Size and speed are easy enough to quantify. 1 overall pick Travon Walker, who ended the night with a Pro Football . Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Another example this time against Texas, where Walker doesnt really have an answer to getting doubled on an inside stunt. Georgia often asked their interior defenders to flip gaps right after the snap, crossing the faces of their blockers, as opposed to trying to shoot through their closest gaps right away. Use promo code. Theres a lot of expectations that come with it. C.J. Well. 20:51 GMT 12 Aug 2022 No, Walker has taken in everything his profession now has to offer, an opportunity he won't let slip through his fingers. It's OK to want to draft a running back! Follow USA TODAY Sports' Jarrett Bell on Twitter @JarrettBell. Tafua has an unimposing size/athleticism profile and is coming off sports hernia surgery. Walker instantly became one of the faces of the franchise before he could step foot in Duval County after his selection. 'Really, you just like the get off. NCAA football is better-attended than pro football and is on the same order in terms of annual revenue. Walker taking Mr. Quarterback down with one big paw at the end was thedenouement. Zack Charbonet, who finished second in the nation in BMT%, will return to UCLA for one more year. Unfortunately, he struggles to disengage when tasked with going against double teams. Height: 6'5". There are professional minor leagues for that role. He's an awesome edge rusher, and awesome edge rushers produce lots of pressures. Travon Walker signed a 4 year, $37,372,621 contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars, including a $24,360,088 signing bonus, $37,372,621 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $9,343,155. All rights reserved. Kirby Smarts team-building philosophy wasnt best shown on Kelee Ringos game-sealing interception. First-overall pick Travon Walker and co were there too. That also lets you recalculate rushing production excluding sacks, e.g. It was different, and for of all Georgias historically great defensive play, they didnt really have one alpha pass-rusher Georgias pass rush came from a combination of deployment and scheme more than the four-on-the-floor stuff that help to define edge defenders in more obvious ways. Thibodeaux remains the best pure edge rush prospect in the 2022 class based on anything that can be seen or quantified. One last thought: there's just no reason why we should have to turn to a premium stat service for a quarterback's sack totals in the early 2020s. Whether or not that work has started to happen, or if it's paid off, won't be truly seen until the season gets underway. Make-you-miss is tougher, in part because every college featured runner can break some tackles and juke out of the way of others. It takes players, too. Incidentally: How on earth did Bryce Young take 39 sacks? . Baalke knows all about the sack numbers. "He understands it, just embrace it. Brugler had Walker rated the highest, projecting the Falcons would take him at 11th overall. Back to Walker as an inside disruptor, where he gets the Von Miller long-arm move going to the great dismay of Alabamas left guard. But we're not evaluating a top-10 pick here. Those same reports were ample in criticism as well, mostly around his abilities in the pass rush. So, when we talk about Walkers production, we have to understand the schematic context before we go around calling him some sort of potential bust. The key to Walker's big day, in which he recorded three pressures and a career-best 25.0% win-rate? As a true freshman and sophomore, he mixed in the. Which is usually reflected in total rush yards anyway. But a lowest-in-the-nation blown block rate certainly isn't a bad thing. We all know he's a raw traits guy, but just how raw are we talking about? Theres a run element to the game, too. But its just the game of football. Though he's used to tough camp battles during his time with the Georgia Bulldogs, the NFL is different. Thats great in the abstract, especially in todays NFL, but you want to see a guy winning from all of those gaps if youre putting him there. We want to maintain the aggressiveness. 1. 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