High School
Walker was born in Syracuse, New York, and was a high school football All-American for Henninger High School in Syracuse. He was also a standout basketball player who averaged over twenty points a game as a sophomore and junior, but abandoned the sport for football. In high school, he established numerous NYSPHSAA football records: career receptions (181), single-season receptions (80), and career receiving yards (3352). In addition, he recorded the second highest single-season yardage total (1190). His 13 single-season touchdowns was third in state history, and he totaled thirty-five career touchdowns for Henninger. He played defensive back and accumulated two hundred tackles and fourteen interceptions. 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. He was ranked as the ninth best high school football prospect in the country in 1998 by the Sporting News.
Walker's career high school records were broken in 2004 by Bruce Williams out of Syracuse's Christian Brothers Academy, who played for the Syracuse Orange football team from 2005 through 2008. Williams took four years to break Walker's record which was set during only three years. Walker's single season receptions record was broken in 2001 by Anthony Morat of Rome, New York's "Free Academy" who later played Division III football at State University of New York at Cortland from 2003–2006 and earned 2006 first team All-conference honors. Harold Jasper, whose career receiving yards record Walker broke, later played for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team and two Arena football teams. Jasper also was the only receiver to have had more single-season yards in New York State history than Walker.
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