Ravens rookie wide receiver Devontez Walker has circled two dates on the season schedule. Baltimore travels to the Cincinnati Bengals on October 6.
The reverse fixture is a nationally televised Sunday night affair on November 7. Walker will be especially amped for both games as he feels the Bengals snubbed him.
“I got a bone to pick with Cincy,” he said on the team’s official podcast The Lounge.
“That’s where I thought I was going but they took another receiver at that spot. … Cincinnati, that game is going to get rough.”
“I thought it was going to be the Bengals; I thought it was going to be me. I met with them the most pre-draft…The Bills and the Bengals [are who] I had a real good feeling about, but the Ravens were not on my mind at all.”
The Ravens drafted Walker out of North Carolina in the fourth round with the 113th overall pick.
The Bengals WR draft pick he’s referring to is likely Jermaine Burton of Alabama. Cincy took Burton with the 80th overall pick in the 3rd round.
The Charlotte native took the Bengals, passing him up extra hard because of who his player role model was.
Walker grew up modeling his game after A.J. Green, arguably the greatest wideout in Cincy history. So you can see why he’ll bring extra juice to these two divisional games this season.