Oakland Raiders wide receiver Javon Walker will need ankle surgery which will likely end the rest of his season.

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Oakland Raiders head coach Lane Kiffin thinks wide receiver Javon Walker is overpaid and overhyped.

“There’s a couple of balls there that we would have liked him to come up with,” Kiffin said during the opening statement of his teleconference Saturday. That’s discouraging because he was paid an awful lot of money, paid like one of the top five receivers in the NFL. We need him to make those plays.” Read the rest of this entry »

Oakland Raiders wide receiver Javon Walker remains hospitalized after he was beat-up, robbed and left unconscious on a Las Vegas street after a long night of partying.

“We don’t believe this is a random act,” Police Lt. Clinton Nichols told the San Francisco Chronicle. “They knew who he was and [Walker] presented a target. We did get a surveillance [video] of a vehicle and suspects that may have been involved. We know there were suspects, possibly two [but] we haven’t identified anyone yet.” Read the rest of this entry »

Oakland Raiders wide receiver Javon Walker was found unconscious in Las Vegas on Monday after an apparent robbery.

A Police spokesman has said Walker was taken to a hospital with “significant injuries” but remained in fair condition at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

No further information is known at this time but there has been speculation that Walker was found with a orbital fracture.

Stay tuned to Sports Crunch for the latest developments in this story.