Flowery Branch, GA. – With the overall choice n ° 15 in the NFL 2025 draft, the Falcons of Atlanta selected the second Georgie Jalon Walker.
Walker may have been just one year for Kirby Smart, but his overall impact and his capacity for creating games undoubtedly make him the superior rusher / second-handed abdul Carter in this year’s class. Despite its smaller framework compared to the other rushers on board, the increase in Walker is exactly what he has shown in Georgia: an ability to regularly put a quarter under pressure.
Walker directed the defense of Georgia in almost all the statistics of the pastime, such as that of total pressures and the percentage of victory to the rush to the pass. This is good, but what is most interesting about this note is that Walker had only the seventh greatest pass of the team. And yet, he has constantly found means by design or effort to go to quarter-Arrières.
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School: University of Georgia
2024 Statistics: 11 Starting | 60 total plated (10.5 for a loss) | 6.5 bags | 2 defended passes
Honors: 2024 All-American third team | 2024 All-Sec team | 2024 Butkus prize winner
How it corresponds to the Falcons: Call him a rusher on board. Call him a secondary. Call him a hybrid of both. Whatever you call it, just make sure to use the word “versatile” when you describe your game, because that’s exactly what it is. Walker is the type of defensive coordinators for players would like to move around the front-seven front while bringing together creative rush plans for him. This follows why the Falcons would like him to see what they liked to do with Kaden Elliss in the past. For Walker, it is a role that he appreciates himself, saying that he is at his best when he is used as a piece of chess. For the Falcons, continue to unlock your potential in this way – in a way a hybrid and failure – could pay dividends for what falconons could do defensively.
