Walls the receiver Pack are searching for
Updated: August 5, 2003, 1:36 PM ET
By By Darrell Trimble | NFL Insider
The Green Bay Packers were hoping that either Robert Ferguson or Javon
Walker would assert themselves as reliable complements to Donald Driver, but
that role may now be filled by newly acquired Wesley Walls.
"I have no grand illusion of coming in there and being 'The Man,' " Walls
told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I want to be a Green Bay Packer.
But he may just be the man that can take the Packers offense to new levels.
True, Walls is a tight end, but he gives the Packers three things that
neither Ferguson or Walker provide: 1) The uncanny ability to consistently
get open, 2) excellent hands, and 3) experience.
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