There are two important traits in football that cannot be coached — size and speed. Play technique can be learned, strength and mass can be added in the weight room, and experience can all be added to a player’s toolbox. But certain traits are just genetic.
Deone Walker (6-6, 330) was blessed with great size and length. With 11″ hands and 33″ arms, the true freshman defensive lineman has physical traits that NFL scouts will be wowed by. Those traits helped make the Detroit (Mich.) Cass Tech product a blue-chip recruit.
Kentucky had to hold off Michigan in a tightly contested recruiting battle to get the top-300 prospect in Lexington.