Travon Walker wasted no time recording his first NFL sack. This is basic information that the NCAA decides to lump among rushing data like it's still 1954 or something. 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. Walker, 6-foot-5, 270 pounds, has lived football throughout his life. If it were a lateral, it's a sack. Travon Walker vs Aidan Hutchinson edge pressure rate: - TW: 9% - AH: 18% < pass-rush win rate on 3rd & 4+: - TW: 11% - AH: 24% < % of pressures that were unblocked/cleanup: - TW: 49% - AH: 25% < 3-cone: - TW: 6.89 - AH: 6.73 < same 10 time arm: - TW: 35 1/2 < - AH: 32 1/8 Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) April 26, 2022 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. By Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? It takes a lot more than just good high school relations to get to a national championship game. Comment: Ahmad Gardner is too good to pass up with the information we have now. Then there was Evan Neal, a generational offensive lineman who could provide immediate relief to any team's front seven to protect the quarterback. Therein is the rub of this draft business. But we're not evaluating a top-10 pick here. Obviously traits lead to production and production is often reflective of a guy with traits. A high sack rate is something a top prospect improves upon before reaching the draft. Their defense finished tied for 27th in sacks (32) and ranked 28th in pressure rate (20.7 percent) last season . Jaguars OLB Travon Walker has made strides in his rookie year Walker started his rookie season with a bang, registering an interception and a sack against the Washington Commander in the. It takes buy-in from players. He played college football at Georgia, winning the 2022 National Championship with them prior to being selected first overall by the Jaguars in the 2022 NFL Draft . Obviously, you dont make the decision in the middle of October or early October. As for the Texans, they need a prospect who can bolster the pass rush right away. It's not the NCAA's job to do your job for you, nor is it their job to project their players' performance is an entirely different league with different rules. Or in considering a less-accomplished example from the history of defensive ends taken No. 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. Dont make it any bigger than its supposed to be.. Those are the highest sack rates of any FCS starting quarterback in the Sports Info Solutions Datahub, dating back to 2016. This caused a lot more overall disruption to an offensive line, and allowed linemen to contain an area while other defenders blitzed, but it didnt always put those players in the best positions to get to the quarterback. Sign up for the DawgNation Newsletter! Or write about sports? 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. 1 overall pick, hoping the defensive stalwart can pair with quarterback Trevor Lawrence to steer . This is where the relative lack of advanced technique shows up. That also lets you recalculate rushing production excluding sacks, e.g. So youre really doing everything, to just expand your resume. Robinson ranks somewhere between Eddie Lacy and Derrick Henry on the Alabama battering ram scale. We all know itshouldbe abbreviated (BT+MT)/A. Murphy is going to be viewed a lot like Travon Walker was last year: a blank canvas with limitless potential. 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. And now for the flip side of Smith's dossier: he led the nation with 12 holding penalties. How do you sort that out? In the next instance, Allen will call Walker and tell him about what he's about to start working on and ask him if he wants to do the same. The Football Database has sack data on individual player pages, including sack yards lost. Walker had a pushing-an-official problem but otherwise was a good three-down playmaker. Still, being the No. Thus far, the rookie OLB is already taking to teaching from plenty of those that surround him. 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 These are two instances in which Walker was able to disrupt outside of traditional roles in which he would be directed to pin his ears back from the edge, or inside on a stunt. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. This a coaching matter, not a fatal flaw, but it does bear notice. Training camp has gone well for Jacksonville Jaguars outside linebacker Travon Walker, the first-overall pick in April's draft. 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 overall is such as honor. Is Walker ready for this? Walker did not clear it, which is interesting in its own right. BEST AVAILABLE PLAYERS: Which standouts are still on the board entering Day 2? College Georgia Bulldogs. Malik Willis had 146/1227/13 rushing this year, rather than 197/878/13, if you exclude sacks. 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. Curtis Compton / [email protected]. Size and speed are easy enough to quantify. Travon Walker isnt a perfect player there is no such thing but there are clear and obvious paths to his NFL success. 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. First-overall pick Travon Walker and co were there too. 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. Avocadoes rot too fast to be a reliable sandwich ingredient and there's way too much toast there. Walker and Hall are RB1 and RB2 on most boards. Walker confirmed the reports that he was involved in a wreck and emerged without injurybut didnt provide many details. Hutchinson, meanwhile, had 14 sacks for Michigan last season, and Thibodeaux brought down the quarterback 19 times in three seasons at Oregon. 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. Jalen Ramsey became a star cornerback, but forced his way out of Jacksonville when he realized the team would not be competitive. There was a moment even more telling about the Georgia program than when former walk-on Stetson Bennett threw the go-ahead touchdown pass to 3-star freshman A.D. Mitchell. Another example this time against Texas, where Walker doesnt really have an answer to getting doubled on an inside stunt. By Jordan D. Hill Apr 28, 7:21 PM. Its a longer season, so you have to take things like that into account," he said. 1 overall to the Jaguars. He recorded sacks . What possible use could that morsel of information have? "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. Walkers monster workout at the combine included an uncanny 4.51-second 40-yard dash time for a man measuring 6-5, 272 pounds. 'Man, I thought he did some really good things,' Pederson said after the game. Then again, before envisioning Walker rushing inside as part of some NASCAR package like Pedersons defense employed during his Philadelphia Eagles tenure, the Jaguars were quick to declare that the first priority will be establishing a primary position defensive end. Yury Travon Walker ( TREY-von; born December 18, 2000) is an American football outside linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). With new coordinator Mike Caldwell, consultant Bob Sutton and defensive line coach Brentson Buckner having their hands on his development, Walker will line up opposite bookend rusher Josh Allen (whom the team exercised a fifth-year option on this week). While they gave up the fifth most points in the NFL and the 10th most rushing yards, they were middle of the pack in giving up passing yards and total yards. 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. 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'I'm really not trying to please anybody else other than my team and my coaches,' Walker told the media after his first day of rookie minicamp. Experts had viewed this as a reach pick even after it happened, and Jacksonville has work to do in order to develop him. If a lineman holds too often in the AAC, heaven knows what he will do if forced to start as a rookie. When Lloyd and Josh Allen are moving in from the edge, imagine packages in which Walker then kicks inside. 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. 1 / 10 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. It's frustrating that such a simple, important data point is not free and one click away for everyone. The manual is unclear how the NFL codifies a post-fumble completion-for-loss. Travis Etienne Jr 2021 Playbook ROOKIE Patch 11/25. 1 overall in consecutive years since Russell Maryland and Steve Emtman in 1991 and 1992. When I first ran the table, I set the minimum at 40 pressures, which seemed to be a reasonable bar for an early-round edge rusher to clear. I get the talent, I see the versatility, I see the quickness outside,' Kiper said. Pac-12? six sacks and a team-best 36 quarterback pressures. Weight 275. He was very disruptive. This gives Walker time to develop his skills in an environment that doesn't demand immediate success. I know the argument to separate them but it doesn't really matter in the end much because, the most EPA lost to sacks was Willis than Howellbut they made up for it on runs. 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 ED #44 Jacksonville Jaguars DOB 2000-12-18 ( 22.1) Height 6' 5" Weight 275 Speed College Georgia Bulldogs Draft Year 2022 Draft Team Jacksonville Jaguars Round 1 Selection 1 Home Fantasy Free Agency NFL Draft Profile View in Premium Stats Get the best of PFF with PFF+ Sign Up An error occured while loading Player Draft Profile. 1 pressure. Being picked No. A catalyst in the national championship-winning Georgia Bulldogs defense, their versatile defensive end prospect has seen his stock gradually rise during the season. We know you are here for the FREE analytics, not the ads. Because at University of Georgia, we play a lot of different defenses, and so therefore you can be scattered all out on the field from playing a five technique, a four I on the front, you play a three. Travon Walker is 6-5 (196 cm) tall. Jaguars general managerTrent Baalke said that Walkers versatility he played all along the defensive front for the Bulldogs was one of the many boxes he checked that influenced the decision. He also earned an impressive BackCAST grade. Robinson is just 178 pounds and will likely be typecast as a gadget specialist, but I think he should be an early Day 2 pick who can play a variety of roles. A quick, fluid defender, sure especially for a 6-5, 270-pounder. "Hes one of those guys that stays on me, as well, to help me implement little things into my game," he said. So, it wasnt one or two guys getting all the pressures, and everyone else taking a back seat. He's a 330-pounder who blasts defenders in the open field, and he just turned 21 two weeks ago, so the upside is there. Willis is the guy to fret about. Welcome to the NFL. Thanks to a stellar NFL Combine performance, Walker shot up mocks and team's draft boards alike. Nor did it happen when Jalen Carter blocked a field goal. 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. 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. He also put them in context in assessing Walker, who drew high marks as a gap-sound lineman who rarely was found out of position. Touchdown Wire's Laurie Fitzpatrick highlights the top throws made by the NFL's rookie quarterbacks in their first preseasons. 'There was some early, good, quick pass rushes in there. 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. 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 Career Stats | NFL.com Players Injuries Transactions Health & Safety Loading Travon Walker OLB #44 Jacksonville Jaguars active Info Stats Summary Career Logs Splits. Let's circle back to pass pressures for edge rushers. Buffalo Bills: Tennessee WR . Here's the deep data for the top FBS receivers in the 2022 draft: Ohio State underclassman Jaxon Smith-Njigba was the Buckeyes' top deep threat from an efficiency standpoint: 20 catches on 27 targets for 618 yards and six touchdowns. Sorry, Travon. 3. 3 defensive tackle in the country for the 2019 class, per 247 Sports. Jaguars veteran outside linebacker Josh Allen has taken the rookie under his wing throughout the offseason and heading into the regular season. Allgeier is the mild surprise on the list above. Mentioned Key being a guy working inside and outside helps him: pic.twitter.com/W7xsginS14. 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. 5 on Saturday . Its not, at the end of the day, how many sacks they tally or how many pressures they have. 2022 Illusions Travon Walker Aidan Hutchinson Gold Rookie Dual Patch Auto #4/10. 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. Ikem Ekwonu, who shifted between left tackle and guard and is still a work in progress, recorded a 1.8% blown block rate. I take little small things from other players that I know and try to insert it into my game and see if it can help me as well," Walker explained. More blame would be placed on Jacksonville for taking him so high, than on Walker being a perceived 'bust'. 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