Herschel Junior Walker was born on March 3,1962 and is an American former football running back who played in the National Football League for 12 seasons.
81 Facts About Herschel Walker
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Herschel Walker was the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia.
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Herschel Walker spent the first three seasons of his professional career with the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League and was the league's MVP during its final season in 1985.
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In 1989, Herschel Walker was traded to the Minnesota Vikings, which is regarded as one of the most lopsided trades in NFL history and credited with establishing the Cowboys' dynasty of the 1990s.
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Herschel Walker was later a member of the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants before retiring with the Cowboys.
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Herschel Walker was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Outside of football, Herschel Walker was a member of the United States' bobsleigh team at the 1992 Winter Olympics and pursued business ventures in food processing.
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Herschel Walker launched his first political campaign in Georgia's 2022 Senate election, which he lost to incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock.
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Herschel Walker said that as a child, he was overweight and had a stutter.
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Herschel Walker attended Johnson County High School in Wrightsville, where he played football, basketball, and competed in track.
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Herschel Walker played for the Johnson County Trojans high school football team from 1976 to 1979.
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Herschel Walker was awarded the inaugural Dial Award as 1979 national high school scholar-athlete of the year.
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Herschel Walker competed on the Trojans track and field team in events ranging from the 100-yard dash to the shot put.
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The claim on Herschel Walker's website was later removed and amended to state that Herschel Walker graduated high school "top of his class".
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Herschel Walker played running back and ran on the track and field team for the University of Georgia, where he was a three-time unanimous All-American, and winner of the 1982 Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award.
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Herschel Walker is the first NCAA player who played only three years to finish in the top 10 in rushing yards, a mark later tied by Jonathan Taylor.
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Herschel Walker was the first "true freshman" to become a first-team All-American.
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In 1999, Herschel Walker was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.
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Herschel Walker attracted only one major promotional offer, a joint project of McDonald's and Adidas.
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In 1987, Herschel Walker complained to Cowboys management about being moved around between three different positions and that Dorsett had more carries.
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Herschel Walker would be the team's main running back, playing in 12 games, while registering 891 rushing yards, 715 receiving yards, and 8 touchdowns.
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Herschel Walker established himself as an NFL running back in 1988, becoming a one-man offense, reaching his NFL career highs of 1,514 rushing yards and 505 receiving yards, while playing seven positions: halfback, fullback, tight end, H-back, wide receiver, both in the slot and as a flanker.
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Herschel Walker became the 10th player in NFL history to amass more than 2,000 combined rushing and receiving yards in a season.
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Herschel Walker received three standing ovations from the record Metrodome crowd of 62,075, producing a Vikings win after four successive losses and 14 of the prior 18 games with the Packers.
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Herschel Walker spent three seasons in Philadelphia, leaving after the Eagles signed free agent Ricky Watters.
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Herschel Walker led the Giants with 45 kick returns at 21.5 yards per return in 1995, his only season with the team.
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Herschel Walker played fullback, but primarily as a ball-handler instead of a blocker out of I-Form and pro-sets.
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In 1992, Herschel Walker competed in the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France as a member of the United States' bobsleigh team.
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In November 2007, Herschel Walker appeared on the HDNet show Inside MMA as a guest.
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Herschel Walker indicated he would take part in a mixed martial arts reality show in the near future and that he would have an official MMA fight at the conclusion of the show.
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In September 2009, it was announced that Herschel Walker had been signed by MMA promotion company Strikeforce to compete in their heavyweight division at the age of 47.
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Herschel Walker began a 12-week training camp with trainer "Crazy" Bob Cook at the American Kickboxing Academy in October 2009 in San Jose, California.
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In 2009, Herschel Walker was a contestant in the second season of the reality television show The Celebrity Apprentice.
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In 2014, Herschel Walker won season 3 of Rachael vs Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off.
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In 2002, Herschel Walker created Renaissance Man Food Services, which distributes chicken products.
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Herschel Walker founded Savannah-based H Walker Enterprises in 2002 as an umbrella company for most of his other business ventures, the largest of which was Renaissance Man Food Services.
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Herschel Walker has a history of exaggerating the number of people employed by and the assets of his companies; the failure of several business enterprises led to creditors bringing lawsuits.
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Herschel Walker touted Renaissance Man Food Services as one of the largest minority-owned meat processors in the nation, with $70 million in annual sales.
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In subsequent deposition testimony in a lawsuit Herschel Walker gave far lower figures, saying that his company averaged about $1.5 million in annual profits from 2008 and 2017.
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Herschel Walker has touted Renaissance Man Food Services as a "mini-Tyson Foods", and said that the company controlled multiple chicken processing plants.
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However, in a 2018 declaration submitted in a legal case against his company, Herschel Walker acknowledged that the company did not actually own any chicken processing plants and instead partnered with plant owners to sell branded chicken products.
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In 2009, Herschel Walker told the media that Renaissance Man Food Services had over 100 employees.
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However, none of the four charities that Herschel Walker named as beneficiaries confirmed they actually received any donations.
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In 2014, Herschel Walker appeared in a commercial paid for by the United States Chamber of Commerce supporting Jack Kingston's bid in the Republican primary election for the 2014 US Senate election in Georgia.
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In 2018, Herschel Walker endorsed Republican Brian Kemp in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.
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Herschel Walker supported Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, and spoke on Trump's behalf at the 2020 Republican National Convention.
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Herschel Walker was removed from the position in March 2022 by President Biden after he was asked to resign.
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In 2021, Donald Trump encouraged Herschel Walker to run for the US Senate in Georgia.
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In July 2021, Fox News reported that some Georgia Republicans were not sure how effective a candidate Herschel Walker would be, citing the fact that his positions on issues of importance to Republican voters were unknown.
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Herschel Walker began his campaign with high favorability ratings and support from self-identified moderate Republicans, and, in October 2021, was endorsed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, in a sign that the Republican establishment was lining up behind him.
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Herschel Walker has been named as an honorary deputy sheriff in Cobb County and Johnson County.
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In 2019, Herschel Walker said he "spent time at Quantico at the FBI training school" and was "an agent" when, in reality, Herschel Walker lacked the bachelor's degree required for FBI training.
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Previously, in 1989, Herschel Walker told the media that he "had fun" while attending an FBI school in Quantico for a week, speaking of an "obstacle course and you shoot at targets".
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On October 5,2022, Herschel Walker's campaign fired Taylor Crowe, his campaign political director, over suspicions that he leaked information to the media.
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Herschel Walker repeatedly tried to link Warnock with President Joe Biden, who carried a low approval rating.
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Herschel Walker has spread many conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
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Herschel Walker claimed that Biden "didn't get 50 million" votes; Biden indeed received over 80 million votes.
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Herschel Walker urged re-votes in the states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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Herschel Walker spread a conspiracy theory about the 2021 United States Capitol attack, suggesting it was a "well-planned" distraction from election fraud.
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In May 2022, Herschel Walker stated he opposes abortion, and wants no exceptions to abortion bans.
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Herschel Walker called for more money to promote adoption and to support single parents.
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Herschel Walker proposes to "lower healthcare costs by increasing competitive market options".
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Herschel Walker supports putting closed oil fields back into production and rolling back oil-field regulations in order to reduce inflation.
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Herschel Walker opposes allowing transgender athletes to compete in women's sports events, stating in September 2022: "Let's get men out of women's sports".
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Herschel Walker wants the United States to "heavily invest" in the military.
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Herschel Walker has lived in Westlake, Texas and in the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas.
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Herschel Walker married Cindy DeAngelis Grossman, whom he met in college, in 1983.
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Herschel Walker has two additional sons and a daughter whom he did not publicly acknowledge before his 2022 US Senate campaign; he did so in June 2022, one day after The Daily Beast reported on one of his additional sons.
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Herschel Walker said that month, during a conference, that he "never denied" having four children.
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Herschel Walker said that he did not publicly acknowledge his children to prevent exposing them to unwanted attention, and criticized the claim that "I hide my children because I don't discuss them with reporters to win a campaign".
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The report stated that Herschel Walker "talked about having a shoot-out with police"; the therapist, Jerry Mungadze, defused the situation after speaking to Herschel Walker for at least half an hour.
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Herschel Walker stated that he does not remember the assault or the threats and attributed his aberrant behavior with his wife and others to his dissociative identity disorder for which he was diagnosed in 2001.
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On October 3,2022, The Daily Beast published allegations from a woman who said that Herschel Walker impregnated her and paid for her abortion in 2009 when they were dating.
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Herschel Walker said he would sue The Daily Beast for defamation.
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Family court records in New York confirm that Herschel Walker and the woman had a son, who was born in 2012.
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Herschel Walker has spoken publicly about being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder and has served as spokesperson for a mental health treatment program for veterans.
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Herschel Walker says he wrote the 2008 book Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder to help dispel myths about mental illness and to help others.
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Herschel Walker was formally diagnosed with the disorder in 2001, after he sought professional help for being tempted to murder a man who was late in delivering a car to him.
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Herschel Walker attributed his divorce to his behavior caused by the disorder.
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Herschel Walker said that in one situation where Walker exhibited two alters, she was in bed when he held a straight razor to her throat and repeatedly stated that he would kill her.
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Herschel Walker did not deny Grossman's account, saying that he did not remember it, because blackouts were a symptom of the disorder.