Tracy Walker had other options as an unrestricted free agent. The safety is coming off a 108-tackle season where he also logged six PDs and raised his level of overall play. But Walker decided he wanted to stay in Detroit and help be a part of the rising Lions tide.
Walker admitted on Tuesday, the day he agreed to a new three-year contract with the Lions, that he considered Detroit the best option all along. The 27-year-old safety relayed a conversation with his agent about his free agency choices.
“He was like, ‘T, I got teams here, what you want to do?'” Walker told reporters on Tuesday. “And I was just looking at him, and I said, ‘You know what, I think Detroit is where I’m going to be back at.’ And he was like, ‘You sure?’ And I’m just like, ‘Yeah, we’re going to Detroit. F it.’ ‘All right, cool. We’re going back to Detroit.'”
