Marquise Walker was born on December 11,1978 and is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver and punt returner who signed to play in the National Football League.
29 Facts About Marquise Walker
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Marquise Walker played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, setting many of the school's receiving records and becoming an All-American in 2001, when he led the Big Ten Conference in receptions.
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In high school, Walker set several important New York State Public High School Athletic Association football records for receptions and reception yardage.
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Marquise Walker is remembered for a pair of spectacular one-handed catches during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season.
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Marquise Walker was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the 86th overall pick in the third round of the 2002 NFL draft.
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Marquise Walker was injured during his first year with Tampa Bay and had several brief stints with several other NFL teams over the next two seasons.
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Marquise Walker had signed to play in the Arena Football League in 2006 but did not play.
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Marquise Walker was born in Syracuse, New York, and was a high school football All-American for Henninger High School in Syracuse.
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Marquise Walker was a standout basketball player who averaged over twenty points a game as a sophomore and junior, but abandoned the sport for football.
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Marquise Walker played defensive back and accumulated two hundred tackles and fourteen interceptions.
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Marquise Walker was named as the Gatorade High School Football Player of the Year for New York State, and he was named to the 1997 USAToday All-USA high school football team.
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Marquise Walker was ranked as the ninth best high school football prospect in the country in 1998 by the Sporting News.
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Harold Jasper, whose career receiving yards record Marquise Walker broke, later played for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team and two Arena football teams.
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Marquise Walker is best remembered for a pair of one-handed catches he made in 2001.
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Marquise Walker's fingertips grazed the leather and tipped it skyward.
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Marquise Walker seriously considered playing for Syracuse University of the Big East Conference, but Syracuse Orange quarterback Donovan McNabb only had one more year remaining.
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Marquise Walker tied his mark later in season against Ohio State.
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Marquise Walker had two touchdowns in each of his three 150-yard reception games.
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Marquise Walker set several other records at Michigan that have been surpassed.
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Marquise Walker broke Mercury Hayes' school record for most consecutive games with a reception.
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Marquise Walker set the single-season 100-yard games record with six.
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Marquise Walker's statistics ranked him highly in Big Ten Conference history.
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Marquise Walker won both the Big Ten Conference games and Big Ten all games receptions titles in 2001.
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Marquise Walker ranked sixth in the nation in receptions per game with 7.36 and 17th in reception yards per game with 94.82.
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Marquise Walker had been behind Keyshawn Johnson, Joe Jurevicius and Keenan McCardell on the Buccaneer 2002 depth chart.
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Marquise Walker was traded to the Arizona Cardinals for running back Thomas Jones prior to the 2003 NFL season after the Cardinals lost their top three wide receivers to free agency.
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Marquise Walker was cut by the Cardinals on August 23,2003, and picked up by the Cincinnati Bengals on August 25,2003, who released him on August 27,2003.
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Marquise Walker, who had signed with the Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots in February prior to the 2004 NFL season for the league minimum $305,000, was released by the Patriots on July 21,2004.
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Marquise Walker signed with the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League to play wide receiver and linebacker for Predator head coach Jay Gruden during the 2006 Arena Football League season.