badboy
Hall of Fame
ok if I email that Koolaide to you? I do think Davenport can start sometime during the season. My guess is he will get snaps behind Clark for few games taking over at some point unless Clark is much better 2017 than we've seen. A dark horse for me is Walker.Forget the rd,
Do you actually think a guy from Bucknell will be able to contribute next season at a starters level in the NFL? Give me a sip of that Kool-Aid.
From August 2015
rest of article http://archive.jsonline.com/sports/...-offensive-lineman-b99565345z1-323174301.htmlThe regression of Barclay coupled with the ascension of Josh Walker leaves Walker in position to be the first man in at four positions, if he can play as well in the last two exhibition games as he did in the first two.In his 75 snaps (38 at right tackle, 34 at right guard and three at left tackle), Walker has been charged with no sacks, two hurries and one false-start penalty.
For the first time, Walker will be playing against defensive players who are starters. After an outstanding off-season and first four weeks of training camp, Walker's performance both at guard and, later in the game, at tackle will be compared in-house to Barclay's.
Last year, Walker (6 foot 5½, 326 pounds) was a rookie free agent with the Indianapolis Colts. He played a whopping 176 snaps in four exhibition games, almost all at guard, before being let go on the final cut.
"I was in one game with Matt Hasselbeck and he says, 'You're at left tackle,'" Walker said. "I hadn't taken tackle reps since 2006, probably. They kind of just tossed me out there."
Despite his height and long arms (343/8 inches), Walker played strictly guard at Middle Tennessee State as a three-year starter.
"We just didn't have any big guys to stick inside," he said. "We had taller, lanky guys. So we put them on the outside and ran power (running plays) to my side every time."
Walker ran a competitive 40-yard dash (5.25 seconds) and posted a solid score of 24 on the Wonderlic intelligence test. The only thing that didn't compute at his pro day was hands that measured a tiny 87/8 inches.
Walker took over for Bryan Bulaga at right tackle late in the second quarter in Pittsburgh and spent the next 20 plays matched against former Kentucky outside linebacker Bud Dupree (6-4, 269), an athletic phenom with a 4.61 40 and a 42-inch vertical jump who was drafted with the 22nd pick in April.Dupree emptied his arsenal on 17 pass plays, settled for one hurry and appeared somewhat frustrated. Walker kept shoving his edge rushes wide of Scott Tolzien. He also blotted out Dupree on a bull rush, adjusted nicely to handle a slashing inside charge and passed off an end-tackle stunt as if it was second nature.Just seven of Walker's 30 snaps were running plays but he made the most of them. There is video of him displacing two linemen on the goal line, combo-blocking easily to the linebacker level and displaying some nasty working to finish.