Everson Walls

Sport: Football

Induction Year: 1998

University: Grambling

Induction Year: 1998

One of the greatest ball-hawking defensive backs in pro football history, Everson Walls defied the odds as a walk-on player at Grambling and a free-agent NFL rookie. He played 13 pro seasons, finishing with 57 career interceptions to tie for ninth place on the all-time NFL list with fellow Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame members Mel Blount and Johnny Robinson. Walls is the only player to lead the NFL in interceptions three times (1981, 1982, 1985). His 11 interceptions as a rookie with Dallas in 1981 are the most in a season by an NFL player in the last 17 years. He later played for the New York Giants and led them in interceptions in 1991, when they won the Super Bowl. At Grambling, he led all collegians with 11 interceptions in his senior year.