Do You Remember? - Herschel Walker

With Herschel Walker in the news this week because he revealed he has a mental disorder, I thought it would be a good time to do a Do You Remember? post on Herschel.

Herschel was a phenomenal college running back at Georgia. He did not have as great of a pro career as many expected but he still performed at a high level racking up over 18,000 total yard. He may be best remembered as being the centerpiece of the Vikings-Cowboys trade that eventually resulted in Dallas being able to draft all-time leading rusher Emmitt Smith.

Here is summary of Herschel's career:

In college football, he played running back for the University of Georgia, where he was an All-American and won the 1982 Heisman Trophy. Walker was successful even in his freshman season in 1980, setting the NCAA freshman rushing record and finishing third in the Heisman Trophy voting.He would go on to win the Heisman in 1982, his junior year. In 1999, Walker was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

If Walkers's USFL and NFL numbers are combined, he ranks as one of the most productive professional football runners in history. In 12 NFL seasons, Walker gained 8,225 rushing yards, 4,859 receiving yards, and 5,084 kickoff-return yards. This gave him 18,168 total combined net yards, ranking him second among the NFL's all-time leaders in that category at the time of his retirement; as of the start of the 2007 NFL season, 10 years after his retirement, he still ranks 8th. He also scored 84 touchdowns: 61 rushing, 21 receiving, and 2 kickoff returns.

Walker is the only player to have 10,000+ yards from scrimmage and 5,000+ return yards (all of which were on kickoff returns). He is the only player to gain 4,000 yards three different ways: rushing, receiving, and kickoff returns. He is one of six players (Jim Brown, Lenny Moore, Marcus Allen, Marshall Faulk, and Thurman Thomas) to exceed 60 TDs rushing and 20 TDs receiving. Walker is currently ranked 8th all time in all-purpose yards with 18,168, despite spending his first 3 seasons in the USFL. (Wikipedia)

Check out Herschel below as he discusses his mental disease, dissociative identity disorder: