Was Herschel Walker a good football player?

Herschel Walker is a former American football running back who spent 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL).

Walker accumulated 8,225 rushing yards, 4,859 receiving yards, and 5,084 kickoff return yards in 12 NFL seasons for 18,168 total combined net yards, ranking him second among the NFL’s all-time total yardage leaders at the time of his retirement.

Ten years later, he was still ranked eighth at the start of the 2007 NFL season.  He scored 84 touchdowns, including 61 rushing, 21 receiving, and two kickoff returns for touchdowns.

Other than Derrick Mason, Walker is the only other player with 10,000+ yards from scrimmage and 5,000+ return yards (all of which were on kickoff returns).

Walker is the only player in history to have accumulated 4,000 yards in three different ways: rushing, receiving, and kickoff returns

. He is one of only a few players to have more than 60 rushing touchdowns and 20 receiving touchdowns. He is the only NFL player to have a 90-yard reception, a 90-yard run, and a 90-yard kickoff return all in the same season (1994).