 Trent Walters | |
| Personal information | |
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| Born: | November 20, 1943 Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Career information | |
| High school: | Austin (TN) |
| College: | Indiana (1962–1965) |
| Position: | Running back |
| Undrafted: | 1966 |
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Trent Walters (born November 20, 1943) is a retired American football coach and Canadian football player who played for the Edmonton Eskimos. He is the father of current Cincinatti Bengals wide receivers coach Troy Walters. [1]
Walters lettered from 1963 to 1965 during his time with the Indiana Hoosiers football team. He played professionally in the CFL with the Edmonton Eskimos from 1966 to 1967. In his career, Walters ran for 821 yards in his career on 164 attempts, scoring 5 rushing touchdowns. He also caught 21 passes for 158 yards. [2]
Walters coached collegiately for 27 seasons and in the National Football League for 13 seasons with three different NFL franchises, the Cincinatti Bengals, Minnesota Vikings, and Philadelphia Eagles. [3]
Walters spent eight seasons on Dennis Green’s Minnesota Vikings staff, the first six as outside linebackers coach, 2000 as inside linebackers coach and 2001 as a defensive assistant. He helped the Vikings to NFL playoff berths in six of his first seven years with the club, culminating in a 15-1 season in 1998 and a 1998 NFC Championship Game appearance.
In Walters' first season with the Eagles, the team appeared in Super Bowl XXXIX after losing in the NFC Championship Game the three previous seasons. Walters coached multiple Pro Bowlers in his four seasons with the franchise, including Brian Dawkins (2004-06) Michael Lewis (2004), and Lito Sheppard (2004, 2006). Dawkins and Sheppard were both First-team All-Pros in 2004, Dawkins achieved the honor again in 2006 under Walters.