Travon Walker NFL Draft Prospect Profile
Yahoo Sports’ lead draft analyst Eric Edholm shares his evaluation of the Georgia edge rusher.
Video Transcript
[SOUND EFFECTS] [MUSIC PLAYING] ERIC EDHOLM: All right. It's time to talk about one of the hotter names for the 2022 draft, that would be Travon Walker, the edge rusher from Georgia. After his Combine workout, you can forget about trying to land him outside the top 15 picks in the draft. On the upside, Walker features an unreal combination of size, power, length, athleticism, and agility. And he's still only 21 years old, just beginning to scratch the surface of his potential. He plays with a hot motor and great pursuit as well. On the downside, Walker is not yet a gifted, refined pass rusher. That's an area where he may need a few years of development. And he simply hasn't played a ton, fewer than 1,000 defensive snaps. So he enters the NFL with a little bit of rawness. Our comp for Walker goes back a couple of years to Rashon Gary when the Packers took him pretty high in round one. Some question marks about that. But Gary has developed his skills, and we think Walker can too at a similar stage in his career.