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| 4th May, 2007 - 5:55 pm |  South Bend Tribune - On Thursday, four days after the draft ended with all 32 teams taking a pass on his services, former Notre Dame RB Darius Walker remained a football player without a home.
A deal with the Chicago Bears, once imminent, has stalled and Walker will not, as previously widely reported, be reporting to Lake Forest, Ill., to begin the long road to ear a roster spot.
"Say I rushed for another thousand yards my senior year," Walker said on Thursday. "I would have still been the same build, the same strength, the same speed, all of my stuff would have been pretty much the same.
"So leaving for me was not really that tough of a decision, and then when you look at the draft, a good number of the players who were drafted are juniors coming out. So when I hear that, 'Maybe you should have waited,' or, 'Why in the world would a junior come out?' they're not saying that about any other junior ... (so) to me it's just kind of crazy and kind of shocking when people say, 'Hey, you should have waited.' " [READ] |
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