All offseason, Detroit Lions safety Tracy Walker has looked like a new kind of player. After clearly having some disagreements in the way the previous regime was using him, he’s praised the current coaching staff non-stop this offseason.
“Honestly, I just get to be myself,” Walker said back in June. “Let’s just say it like that. I get to walk around and be myself and I can’t ask for much else.”
During Sunday’s season opener, Walker had one of the few good defensive plays against the San Francisco 49ers, picking up the team’s sole sack of the day on a designed blitz that left him untouched on his way to Jimmy Garoppolo.