{"id":4380,"date":"2025-04-27T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/4380\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:48:11","slug":"falcons-select-jalon-walker-with-no-15-pick-in-2025-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/4380\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons select Jalon Walker with No. 15 pick in 2025 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 With the No. 15 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, the Atlanta Falcons selected Georgia linebacker Jalon Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Walker may have been just a one-year starter for Kirby Smart, but his overall impact and playmaking ability makes him arguably the top edge rusher\/linebacker not named Abdul Carter in this year&#8217;s class. Despite his smaller frame when compared to other edge rushers, Walker&#8217;s upside is exactly what he showed at Georgia: An ability to consistently put a quarterback under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Walker led Georgia&#8217;s defense in almost every pass-rushing stat line, like that of total pressures and pass rush win percentage. That&#8217;s all well and good, but what&#8217;s most interesting about this note is that Walker only had the seventh-most pass-rush snaps on the team. And yet, he constantly found ways either by design or by effort to get to the quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s learn more about the newest member of the Falcons defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 With the No. 15 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, the Atlanta Falcons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2074],"tags":[80,348,223,254,2554,19,801,224,7,1486,88,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-2025-offseason","10":"tag-atlanta","11":"tag-atlanta-falcons","12":"tag-atlantafalcons","13":"tag-draft","14":"tag-draft-app-feature","15":"tag-falcons","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-jalon-walker","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114410245636731640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}