Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Mike Walker, a 3rd-round draft pick in 2007, impressed his coaching staff at minicamp last season, leading many (including us) to speculate that he might get a starting job with the team. Then he suffered a knee injury in training camp and missed the 2008 season.Well, contradicting some previous reports, Walker seems to have recovered from that knee injury and is making a big impression in Jaguars' minicamp once again. Jaguars.com editor Vic Ketchman is just one writer impressed with Walker's catching radius.
Draw a stick man. Now draw a circle around his body that represents the zone in which your stick man is capable of catching a football. How high can he go? How low can he go? Can he go as far to his left as he can to his right? Now connect the dots. That's your stick man's catching radius. Walker has a good one.
Ketchman also says, though, that Walker's NFL future depends entirely on his knee. If it remains healthy, Walker has the potential to be a starter, rather than just a great player in minicamps. That would be a good thing for the Jags, who have a strange predilection for signing receivers who can't catch. Maybe that's why they're still struggling to sell tickets.
