Overview

• Walker tore his ACL during a two-minute drill at Friday’s practice and will miss the entire 2025 season, coach Todd Bowles confirmed Monday.
• The fourth-round pick out of Central Arkansas had been projected for a rotational role behind starters Haason Reddick and YaYa Diaby after impressing early in camp.
• Walker won last season’s Buck Buchanan Award as the top defensive player in the FCS, capping his college career with 10.5 sacks and 23 tackles for loss.
• Tampa Bay has reconfigured its edge depth chart, leaning on Reddick and Diaby as full-time starters while Anthony Nelson, Chris Braswell and others vie for expanded snaps.
• Todd Bowles urged Walker to treat 2025 as a redshirt year as he begins his rehabilitation program in Tampa.