“He was the one that allowed me to get to this position, so I know he’s in heaven looking down at me saying that my hard work paid off.” Jets-Texans was a homecoming for Austin Walter, who grew up in Houston and played at Rice. “I know that he had the best seat in the house,’’ Austin said. He died in his sleep of congestive heart failure at age 55 in 2017 when Walter and his twin brother, Aston, were both playing at Rice. Tony Walter wasn’t outside the stadium with Dian on Sunday afternoon, waiting to embrace his son after he scored that first career TD. Being here my whole life and for this to be the place that I get my first career touchdown … I know my dad is in heaven smiling down on me.’’ “It’s been a lot of emotions I’ve been feeling,’’ Walter said after the game. He grew up in Houston and played his college ball at Rice University, which is 2 miles from NRG Stadium. Walter finished with 38 yards on nine carries and that magical touchdown, and he did it at home. “I wasn’t going to be denied,’’ he said of the touchdown. Jets use three-man backfield to pound Texans without Michael Carter Walter gave the Jets life when their offense looked lifeless. I said, ‘I’m going to scream so loud when you make it into that end zone.’ ” “We prayed that God protect him from all injury, harm and danger … and that he makes it into that end zone,’’ Walter’s mother, Dian, was telling The Post an hour after the game as she waited outside the stadium with friends and family for a quick visit with her son before the team buses would depart. “My mom said yesterday she could feel that I was going to score today and you know a mother’s intuition … mothers always know best,’’ Walter said. Austin Walter scores his first career touchdown. It was Walter’s first NFL touchdown and it answered one of the prayers he and his mother shared the night before. It was at the walk-through where Walter was informed he was being elevated to the game roster.īy Sunday afternoon, with the Jets scuffling on offense, rookie quarterback Zach Wilson looking like a player with a bum knee who hadn’t played in a month and the team trailing a bad Texans team, 14-3, there was Walter bursting into the end zone from 2 yards out with 1:13 remaining before the half to cut the deficit to 14-11. When Walter woke up in New Jersey on Saturday morning and went to the team walk-through before it would depart for Houston, he was a member of the practice squad - a journeyman hopeful who had appeared in five NFL games with one carry for 3 yards and one reception for 27 yards. Here’s one for the 3-8 Jets: Walter, a 25-year-old, 5-foot-8, 202-pound wrecking ball of a running back packed with perseverance. On Sunday, after a 21-14 Jets win over the Texans at NRG Stadium, they cried together.Ī 3-8 team headed for an 11th consecutive year without a playoff appearance - as the Jets are - needs a feel-good story every once in awhile to numb the negativity. HOUSTON - On Saturday night at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Houston - the Jets’ team hotel for their game against the Texans - Austin Walter and his mother, Dian, prayed together. Tiger Woods doesn't owe golf world another comeback How Bryson DeChambeau came back from the brink of quitting golf - with Chris Pratt's help Washington Football Team surging to NFC East relevancy after rocky start Steelers' last stand for playoff hopes comes against rival Ravens Saquon Barkley has become face of Dave Gettleman's Giants failures
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