Javon Walker found unconscious near Las Vegas strip
According to FOX 5 News in Las Vegas, Oakland Raiders wide receiver Javon Walker was found unconscious with an orbital fracture on Flamingo Boulevard located just off the strip early Monday morning.
The Oakland Raiders player was taken to Sunrise Medical Center’s Trauma unit, where he was listed in fair condition late Monday afternoon, hospital officials said.
Police said Walker had an orbital fracture. They said they are not sure how he received the fracture.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Walker was seen Saturday night at Tryst at the Wynn spraying the crowd with some of the 15 bottles of Dom Perignon Rose champagne he ordered.
Como what? How does a player from the NFL wind up on a street unconscious with an “orbital fracture?” Don’t these guys travel with a large crew to make sure that they don’t wind up unconscious on some street corner off the Las Vegas strip? Somebody get Gil Grissom on the phone – there’s a crime to be solved.
I hope you’ll forgive the snobbery, but this probably wouldn’t have happened if Javon had shut his pie hole and played one more year for the Packers – thereby giving them a reason to upgrade his contract.
Who needs him? I’ll take Greg Jennings and Donald Driver any day.
When Walker was playing at his peak, he helped us a great deal. I’ll always say it was a real pity that ego (mostly his) got in the way of a really good fit. The guy should have bought himself a house and settled in for the long haul. We made him a millionaire when many said he wasn’t smart enough to play in the NFL We carried him until he caught on, and when he did, it was pretty damn good.
I think he was the best pure receiver Favre ever had – as much potential physically as James Lofton if you ask me. Driver is the superior player, and Jennings might well get there, but I don’t think either one of them has the physicals that Walker did.
Unfortunately, he seems to be just another in a long line of very gifted athletes that just didn’t have it right between their ears. Or who just couldn’t choke back on their ego and be part of a real team.
Strictly my opinion, mind you.
Isn’t Lofton coaching receivers now?
With the Raiders?