Cedric Walker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Cedric Walker

American football player and coach

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1971

Place of Birth: Lufkin, Texas, United States

Profession: American football player

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Cedric Walker

  • Cedric Walker (born February 10, 1971) is a former American football defensive back and coach who is currently the defensive coordinator of the Baltimore Brigade of the Arena Football League (AFL).
  • Walker played football at Stephen F.
  • Austin University; once his stint there concluded, he signed with the AFL's Charlotte Rage.
  • Walker played for a succession of AFL teams over his ten-season career; these included the Orlando Predators, Arizona Rattlers, Indiana Firebirds, Chicago Rush, Austin Wranglers, and Las Vegas Gladiators.
  • At the end of his AFL Career, Walker had amassed some 522 solo tackles (614 total); this was (at the time) the league's seventh-highest total.
  • Walker also won one ArenaBowl as a player; this came with the Arizona Rattlers in 1997.Walker took up a career in coaching following his retirement as a player.
  • He began as the defensive coordinator for the Bakersfield Blitz of the AF2 in 2006; following a successful stint there (the Blitz allowed the second-fewest points of any AF2 team that season), Walker became head coach of the AF2's Everett Hawks.
  • In Walker's first season at the helm, the Hawks posted a pedestrian 8–8 record; they made the playoffs, however, behind the league's third-ranked defense.
  • In 2008, Walker became head coach of the AF2's Tri-Cities Fever; his stint there, however, proved unsuccessful (the Fever went 4-12 in 2008).
  • Walker was fired by the team at the end of the season.
  • He was hired by the AF2's Green Bay Blizzard in 2009 as a defensive coordinator, to mixed results; while the Blizzard were average in most defensive categories, they lead the AF2 in sacks.Walker's coaching career received a huge boost in 2010.
  • That year, he was hired by the Milwaukee Iron of the Arena Football League as a defensive coordinator.
  • The Iron allowed 903 points in Walker's first year (the eleventh-highest mark in the 14-team league); despite this, the team's defense finished second in sacks (25.5) and fourth in interceptions (20).
  • In 2011, Walker's second year as defensive coordinator, the team's defense made major strides; notably, it allowed the fewest yards (266.8 per game) and fourth-fewest points (872) of any AFL defense that season. Walker was hired to be the defensive coordinator of the AFL's San Jose SaberCats prior to the AFL's 2012 season.
  • In San Jose, Walker inherited a defense that had allowed 1080 points the season before; this was the third-worst total in the 18-team league.
  • Under Walker's guidance, the SaberCats' defense became the league's most dominant.
  • In 2012, the SaberCats allowed 1027 points (a 53-point improvement over 2011).
  • The defense was aided, in part, by the additions of Joe Sykes and Jason Stewart to the defensive line.
  • Sykes recorded 16.0 sacks in 2012 (a record that stood until 2015, when Sykes himself broke it with 18.5); for this, he was named the league's Defensive Player of the Year.
  • In 2013, Walker's second year, the SaberCats allowed only 877 points (a staggering 150-point improvement over 2012).
  • In two years, Walker had turned the AFL's third-worst unit (by points allowed) into its second best.
  • The unit was led by the return of defensive back Clevan Thomas, who had been elected to the AFL's Hall of Fame one year prior.
  • Thomas led the league with fifteen interceptions (six of which were returned for touchdowns); he joined Sykes as the SaberCats' second consecutive Defensive Player of the Year.In 2014, the SaberCats' defense established itself as the league's best.
  • The team allowed only 723 points all season (a 154-point improvement over 2013) while holding eleven of its eighteen opponents to fewer than 40 points.
  • This was the league's lowest total by 55 points.
  • For the third consecutive year, a SaberCats defender won the league's Defensive Player of the Year Award; this year's recipient was Jason Stewart, who led the Cats' vaunted defensive line with 12.5 sacks.
  • In Walker's fourth year, the SaberCats' defense performed historically well.
  • Despite injuries to the team's secondary (particularly the losses of Virgil Gray and Eric Crocker to injury), the SaberCats allowed a staggeringly-low 662 points (a 61-point improvement over 2014's league-best figure).
  • This was the league's best total by 161 points.
  • All told, the 2015 SaberCats allowed only 36.8 points per game; this represented the league's lowest per-game total in well over twenty years.
  • At the end of the season, the SaberCats defeated the Jacksonville Sharks in ArenaBowl XXVIII; this gave Walker his second AFL Championship (and first as a defensive coordinator). On March 27, 2018, it was announced that Walker would be the defensive coordinator of the Baltimore Brigade.

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