Walker’s improvement has been twofold. First, it was getting more comfortable with his assignments and the offensive scheme.<\/p>\n
“Last year, early on, I felt like I wasn’t able to play as fast,” Walker said. “You know, I’m wondering what to do. I’m thinking so much, trying to do everything right, perfect everything. I wasn’t able to go out there and run full speed. This year, I’m able to get lined up and go out there and play as fast as possible.”<\/p>\n
Walker has the size (6-foot-1, 198 pounds) and speed to be a matchup problem, and he showcased it in minicamp.<\/p>\n
On one play, he caught a short crosser and turned on the burners to pick up significant yardage after the catch down the sideline. On another play, he took second-year cornerback T.J. Tampa deep and made a “spectacular” leaping catch, using Harbaugh’s description.<\/p>\n
The other thing Walker has been working on is his route-running, particularly getting in and out of his breaks faster. He was surprised that cornerbacks would stick in his rear pocket last season, so Walker studied the route-running of teammates Zay Flowers and Rashod Bateman to pick up details on how to shake defenders instead of relying on burning them.<\/p>\n
“I feel really confident,” Walker said. “I know what we’re trying to get done in this offense, and I’m able to go out there and play full speed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walker’s improvement has been twofold. First, it was getting more comfortable with his assignments and the offensive scheme.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[14866,834,13880,10014,1232,10012,14865,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-14458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-devontez-walker","9":"tag-general","10":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","11":"tag-inline-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-offseason","14":"tag-ryan-mink","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114745965559949606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}