No. 7 – Green Bay Packers | |||||||||||||||
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Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||||||||
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Born: | Cordele, Georgia, U.S. | May 8, 2000||||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||
Weight: | 241 lb (109 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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High school: | Crisp County (Cordele, Georgia) | ||||||||||||||
College: | Georgia (2018–2021) | ||||||||||||||
NFL draft: | 2022 / Round: 1 / Pick: 22 | ||||||||||||||
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Roster status: | Active | ||||||||||||||
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Player stats at NFL.com · PFR |
JaQuavian Jy'Quese "Quay"Walker (born May 8, 2000) is an American football linebacker for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia and was selected by the Packers in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft.
Walker was born on May 8, 2000, in Cordele, Georgia. He attended Crisp County High School, where he had 109 tackles, eight sacks, and an interception as a junior. [1] Walker was rated a four-star recruit and initially committed to play college football at Alabama before his senior year in 2017, but changed to Georgia in early 2018. [2] [3]
Walker played in all 14 of Georgia's games during his freshman season and had six total tackles. [4] He saw increased playing time as a sophomore and finished the season with 23 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 2.5 sacks. [5] Walker finished as Georgia's fourth-leading tackler with 43 in his junior season. [6] [7]
Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press | |
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6 ft 3+3⁄4 in (1.92 m) | 241 lb (109 kg) | 32+5⁄8 in (0.83 m) | 9+1⁄4 in (0.23 m) | 4.52 s | 1.59 s | 2.64 s | 4.32 s | 6.89 s | 32.0 in (0.81 m) | 10 ft 2 in (3.10 m) | 23 reps | |
All values from NFL Combine/Pro Day [8] [9] |
Walker was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the first round (22nd overall) of the 2022 NFL Draft. [10] [11] The Packers previously acquired the pick in a trade that sent Davante Adams to the Las Vegas Raiders. On May 6, 2022, he signed his rookie contract. [12]
Walker was ejected in week 8 against the Buffalo Bills after an altercation with Bills' practice squad tight end Zach Davidson, following a play where Walker made a tackle on the Bills sideline. [13] In week 11, during a 40–33 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, Walker scooped up a fumble forced by teammate Rudy Ford on Eagles wide receiver A. J. Brown and returned it 63 yards to put the Packers in scoring position. [14]
Walker was ejected a second time in week 18 against the Detroit Lions after shoving a member of the Lions medical staff, becoming the only player since the 2000 NFL season to be ejected more than once in a single season. [15]
Walker played all 17 games in his rookie campaign, finishing the season with a team-high 121 total tackles (75 solo, 46 assisted). [16] He also recorded a team-high three forced fumbles, as well as 1.5 sacks, five tackles for loss and one fumble recovery. [16]
On September 10, 2023, during a 38–20 win over the Chicago Bears, Walker intercepted a pass from Justin Fields and returned it 37 yards for his first NFL touchdown. [17]
Year | Team | GP | GS | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | ||||||||||
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Total | Solo | Ast | Sck | SFTY | PDef | Int | Yds | Avg | Lng | TDs | FF | FR | ||||
2022 | GB | 17 | 16 | 121 | 75 | 46 | 1.5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
2023 | GB | 14 | 14 | 118 | 59 | 59 | 2.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 37 | 37.0 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 31 | 30 | 239 | 134 | 105 | 4.0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 37 | 37 | 37.0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
Source: pro-football-reference.com |
Year | Team | GP | GS | Tackles | Interceptions | Fumbles | ||||||||||
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Total | Solo | Ast | Sck | SFTY | PDef | Int | Yds | Avg | Lng | TDs | FF | FR | ||||
2023 | GB | 2 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 2 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Source: pro-football-reference.com |
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