And not making any more pressure than it has to be.. It was nothing to be concerned about. 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. Incidentally: How on earth did Bryce Young take 39 sacks? It's also reflected for the non mobile ones like Strong who has negative run EPA and total rush yards. 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. 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Thompkins is 5-foot-8 and weighs just 155 pounds, so he'll be a popular undrafted free agent who might be better suited for the CFL. It takes players, too. Obviously they weren't really interested in order of operations. As a true freshman, he played in 12 of 14 games and . Hall tops Walker in our BackCAST projections, and nothing about finishing a narrow second to him in BMT% contradicts that. Mercer and NMSU each getting 1 and Georgia getting 0 is a weird stat to square. Anyway, we all know that Hutchinson can play. Time will tell. 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 The Football Database has sack data on individual player pages, including sack yards lost. Travon Walker is the epitome of an ascending 2022 NFL Draft prospect. Training camp has gone well for Jacksonville Jaguars outside linebacker Travon Walker, the first-overall pick in April's draft. 1:22 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - About an hour before the Jacksonville Jaguars ended the suspense and selected Georgia defensive end Travon Walker with the No. A high sack rate is something a top prospect improves upon before reaching the draft. Coming into the 2022 NFL draft, one of the primary questions was whether the Jacksonville Jaguars were going to take the sure thing in Michigan edge-rusher Aidan Hutchinson, or the athletic projection in Georgia multi-gap defender Travon Walker. He only rushed the passer 261 times to Hutchinson's 404, hence a much lower pressure total. Draft Team Jacksonville Jaguars. This isnt a guy who just jumped on the screen because he ran 4.51 in the 40-yard dash at the combine. Georgia Bulldogs defensive lineman Travon Walker recorded 2.5 sacks last season. Of the analysts, four of the five had him going first overall, and all of them had him going top five. Walker led the Bulldogs with 32 pass pressures. Boston College interior lineman Zion Johnson was charged with just two blown blocks in 754 offensive snaps for a 0.3% blown block rate, the lowest figure in the nation for a guard (minimum 500 snaps). 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. End of the Line for Kendricks, Hicks in Minnesota? He was very disruptive. Charlton, meanwhile, is with his fifth NFL team. He flashed a mean streak on tape and comes across as a high-character individual in interviews. Walker never had a multi-sack game during his career at Georgia and tallied 9 12 sacks in three seasons, although he also had a team-high 36 quarterback hurries last season in helping the Bulldogs march to a national title. Round 1. . 1/10/22 - Indianapolis - Georgia Bulldogs defensive lineman Travon Walker (44) pressures Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Bryce Young (9) during the first quarter at the 2022 College Football. 148. Sign up for the DawgNation Newsletter! April 28, 2022 8:21 pm ET. Showed his length, his athleticism, his power. 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. Mentioned Key being a guy working inside and outside helps him: pic.twitter.com/W7xsginS14. Various metrics keep telling us that Allgeier has the potential to be productive in the NFL. Georgia's Travon Walker is favored to become the No. But its just the game of football. Or write about sports? Of their last five defensive first-round picks, only Josh Allen and K'Lavon Chaisson are still with the team, and Walker plays in the same position Chaisson does. It was all the work we put in in the off-season, getting to know each other, all the connection pieces, just everything weve done just this off-season, its been like no other that Ive had, linebacker Nakobe Dean said. "Hes one of those guys that stays on me, as well, to help me implement little things into my game," he said. But we're not evaluating a top-10 pick here. A quick, fluid defender, sure especially for a 6-5, 270-pounder. Alabama underclassman Will Anderson Jr. led the nation with 81 pass pressures. In Johnson's case, a low blown block rate helps flesh out his scouting report. 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. Slide over to the outside and Tulsa draft board-riser Tyler Smith was charged with just eight blown blocks in 860 snaps for a 0.9% blown block rate, which ranked sixth in the nation at left tackle. Walker is currently projected to get around that number, with an over/under set at 6.5 sacks, according to DraftKings Sportsbook. 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. There are a lot of ways to look at production. There are professional minor leagues for that role. 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.". He finished third in the conference to teammate Travon Walker and Alabama's Phidarian Mathis among players listed as defensive tackles with 29 pressures in 2021. Thus far, the rookie OLB is already taking to teaching from plenty of those that surround him. 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. 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. You can follow him on Twitter at @Demetrius82. Class: Junior. We understand that. 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. 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. It's also available for basketball, baseball and hockey. In straining and being connected a team. A crowd of media members were waiting to talk with the former No. His high-school graduating class was so small the commencement ceremony lasted just over an hour. 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. Subscribe to Stathead Football: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Pro Football Reference Database. 1 pressure. "You try to preserve your body. But if you put his combine numbers up against Thibodeaux's pro-day showing, Walker out-tested Thibodeaux in every speed and. Another interesting wrinkle is the down-without-contact rule in NCAA -- you can fall down and auto-sack yourself in a way you can't under NFL rules. 1 / 10 Last season, the Jaguars blitzed on 31.5% of their snaps, and had a pressure rate of 24.2%. If Walker ends up not panning out, he might not be the main problem. What would the Steelers or Rams defenses do to him? 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. 1 overall pick will come with some lofty expectations. We present them here for purely educational purposes. In rookie camp, Walker got some reps in at outside linebacker, which would see him join a promising young linebacker corps with names like Josh Allen and Devin Lloyd. What possible use could that morsel of information have? In reply to How on earth did Bryce Young by Aaron Brooks G, In reply to How on earth did Bryce Young by Travis. * Selected to Pro Bowl, + First-Team AP All-Pro, Bold indicates league leader. . Not only can he blow things up from every gap, but he'll be . "Just coming from college to the NFL its a big difference in the practice structure.. NCAA football is better-attended than pro football and is on the same order in terms of annual revenue. There are a lot of things that go into production, Baalke said of that issue. "Blown blocks" are much more subjective than pressures or hurries. Here are the 2021 BMT% figures of note for the 2022 running back draft class: Walker-versus-Hall would have been a great first-round draft debate 30 years ago. He finished the season with eight total pressures. Travon Walker played 15 games last season and 15 games over his career. His 12 quarterback pressures also tie for third-most on the team. Two picks later, the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted T.J. Watt, now the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year. With only one down lineman to the left (Walker) and a defensive back on the edge, the Chargers almost have to respond to the overloaded . Size and speed are easy enough to quantify. Pac-12? Johnson will likely be drafted as a center in the bottom half of the first round. He can win around the edge with quickness and convert explosion to power at contact to push linemen backwards. Despite being productive for Clemson, Murphy doesn't have anything truly refined and needs a lot of technical work. 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. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. About an hour before the Jacksonville Jaguars ended the suspense and selected Georgia defensive end Travon Walker with the No. By draft day, almost all of them had changed their minds about who the bottom feeding Jaguars would pick first overall. 'But we just want to see him continue to get better, continue to work his moves, build his toolbox. No, he's surrounded by plenty of players that have done it at the highest level of football, including some ex-players as his coaches like Jaguars defensive coordinator Mike Caldwell. This edition of Walkthrough is really about tricky-to-find stats and splits, most of which we curated from the Sports Info Solution Datahub, and what they can tell us about both first-rounders such as Hutchinson and potential sleepers such as Tafua. Therein is the rub of this draft business. Tindall responded by sacking Young on the next play to force a field goal. 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