Outside Linebacker · Atlanta Falcons

Jalon Walker

No. 11 · 2nd season

Carted off in training camp, and Atlanta's plan just got a lot harder

He hadn't played a single regular-season snap yet. That's the part that sits with you.

Jalon Walker came to Atlanta as the 15th pick in the 2025 draft — a top-of-the-first-round investment in the team's pass rush, the kind of selection a franchise makes when it believes it has found something real. He had barely set foot on the field as a professional before he was being carted off a training camp practice.

The Falcons fear Walker tore his ACL. If that holds, his rookie season is over before it started, and he could miss the entire 2026 season. Atlanta was already looking at the possibility of being without two starting edge rushers for a stretch of next year. Now that math gets harder and more painful.

For Walker, this is the cruelest kind of setback — not a slump, not a demotion, just a moment on a practice field that changed everything. A career that hadn't had the chance to begin is already on hold.

What he does with the time between now and whenever he comes back — that part is still his to write.

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