Rasheed
Walker.
Rasheed
Walker.
Penn St.· 6'6"· 313 lb
"A three-year Penn State starting left tackle who fell to the 249th pick over technique concerns, then made 48 straight starts on an NFL blind side and priced himself into a $10 million free-agent deal."Pre-draft read
A 6-5 5/8, 313-pound left tackle at the combine with a 6-8 1/2 wingspan and 33 5/8-inch arms, which is the length profile teams want on the blind side. Walker moves like a lighter man than his listed 324 pounds, with clean lateral slide and the range to cut off speed rushers on the edge.
His best trait is pass-set smoothness. He gets depth quickly, keeps his frame square and recovers well when the first punch misses. In the run game he is a positional blocker who seals and walls rather than a mauler who displaces bodies. The pre-draft questions were about consistent hand placement, sustained finish and pad level: at 6-6 he plays high and can be rocked backward by rushers who convert speed to power.
A zone-heavy running game with play-action passing that lets a rangy tackle move laterally and reach defenders rather than drive them.
Year 1: swing tackle and developmental starter. Ceiling: an entrenched starting left tackle on a playoff offense.
A gap and power scheme that asks him to down-block and drive a 3-technique off the ball, where his finish has always lagged his feet.
Green Bay's outside zone offense was the exact place his athleticism paid and his lack of mass did not.
Rasheed Walker left tackle highlights
His pass sets and kick slide on the blind side.
Rasheed Walker backside run block technique, OL film breakdown
How he seals the backside in Green Bay's zone scheme.
Panthers GM Dan Morgan breaks down Rasheed Walker film
A front office explaining why it paid him in 2026.
Walker grew up in Waldorf, Maryland and played at North Point High School, where he earned a spot in the 2018 US Army All-American Bowl. He was a four-star recruit and chose Penn State over Ohio State, Maryland and Virginia Tech.
He played four games as a true freshman before redshirting, then won the starting left tackle job in training camp before his redshirt freshman season and never lost it. He started all 13 games in 2019, started all nine games of the COVID-shortened 2020 season and was named third-team All-Big Ten, then made 10 starts at left tackle in 2021 as a team captain, earning third-team All-Big Ten from the media and honorable mention from the coaches.
He entered his final season on the Lombardi Award and Outland Trophy watch lists and left it having protected Sean Clifford through three straight seasons. He declared for the draft with eligibility remaining. The fall to the 249th pick was about technique rather than tools: evaluators saw a three-year Big Ten starting left tackle with NFL length whose hands and pad level were still developing, and they bet against the refinement arriving. Green Bay took the bet the other way.
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Length
33 5/8-inch arms and a 6-8 1/2 wingspan give him the reach to stop an edge rusher before the rusher reaches him.
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Pass-set athleticism
he gets depth fast, slides cleanly and has the range to cut off speed around the corner.
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Experience
32 career starts at left tackle across three seasons in the Big Ten, against the best edge rushers in the conference.
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Recovery
when his hands miss he does not panic; he resets his base and stays in front of the rush instead of grabbing.
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Leadership and maturity
voted a team captain at Penn State in what head coach James Franklin publicly described as a landslide vote.
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Pad level
at 6-6 he plays tall, which lets converted-power rushers get under his chest and walk him into the pocket.
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Hand placement
inconsistent strike accuracy means he loses control of reps he had already won with his feet.
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Run-game finish
a positional blocker who seals defenders rather than one who moves them off the line of scrimmage.
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Anchor strength
he needed to add functional core strength to hold up against NFL bull rushes on an every-down basis.
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Penn State | 4 |
| 2019 | Penn State | 13 |
| 2020 | Penn State | 9 |
| 2021 | Penn State | — |
| Career | — | 26 |
Start totals from Penn State's official season bios and its 2021 feature on him. The 2021 games-played figure is left blank rather than estimated because the school lists only his 10 starts for that season.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A Green Bay swing tackle whose athleticism earned him a starting run.
Another late-round tackle who turned length and footwork into a decade of starts.
The teammate whose refinement showed how much technique separates late-round linemen.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Walker is one of the best value picks of the entire 2022 draft. He played one game as a rookie, on special teams, and then Week 2 of 2023 happened: David Bakhtiari's knee gave out against Atlanta and Walker started at left tackle on September 17, 2023. He never gave the job back, making 48 consecutive starts until the Packers rested starters in Week 18 of the 2025 season.
The numbers behind the streak are those of a real starter, not a survivor. He took 1,075 offensive snaps in 2024, which was 99.2 percent of Green Bay's total, and 988 more in 2025. He posted a 93.8 percent pass block win rate in 2025, 11th among all NFL offensive tackles, while being charged with seven sacks allowed. He held off 2024 first-round pick Jordan Morgan for the job going into 2025 and won it outright. Free agency valued him accordingly: Carolina signed him on March 14, 2026 to a one-year deal worth up to $10 million. Fifty-three games, 49 starts, and counting, from the 249th pick.