JACKSONVILLE – Travon Walker wanted this, and he knows what's next.
Walker on Saturday officially signed a contract extension with the Jaguars. That's what the team and the fifth-year defensive end wanted, and what Walker wants now is to be better – and more dominant – moving forward.
"It's just time to go play ball now," he said.
Walker, the No. 1 overall selection in the 2022 NFL Draft, agreed to terms on a reported four-year, $110 million contract extension with $77 million guaranteed on Friday – a deal that became official when he signed the extension at the Miller Electric Center Saturday morning.
"It really means a lot," Walker said.
The deal came early in the Jaguars' second offseason under the leadership team of Head Coach Liam Coen, General Manager James Gladstone and Executive Vice President of Football Operations Tony Boselli.
"Getting a new staff in, it's always that uncertainty," Walker said. "When they first got here, I feel like they did a great job of just communicating with me on things. That put in perspective how that relationship was going to go.
"Sometimes you never really know how it's going to go but since they've been there, I feel like on my end and their end we've been transparent with each other, and we just have cordial conversation to where we can all just be comfortable.
"That was one of Liam's main things, speak your mind and we'll go from there."
Walker originally signed a four-year rookie contract with the Jaguars in 2022. Because the Jaguars exercised a “fifth-year option” on that contract as allowed under NFL rules for first-round draft selections, he was scheduled to play 2026 on a one-year, guaranteed contract.
Walker's contract now runs through the 2030 season.
"I really didn't get too deep into the negotiation part," he said. "I just let my agent handle that and they did what they did. It was going to happen on God's time anyways. It did its own race."
Walker said he told his family "two or three years ago" that – if possible – he would "definitely" love to play the rest of his career with the Jaguars.
"Look at God," Walker said Saturday.
Walker on Saturday also discussed a conversation with Coen shortly after the season, with Coen saying this week he talked with Walker about "just what that looked like in terms of dominating" and relaying to Walker about the Los Angeles Rams having to remove All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald from practice to gain yards offensively when Coen worked as an assistant with the Rams.
"It's just taking my game to another level," Walker said. "It just kind of help put things in perspective for me to be able to just click into a different type of mindset from how I was going throughout the year. It really dawned on me that it's just time to ramp things up, take it to the next level."
Added Walker, "It's helping everybody else on the team get better, while it's helping me get better as well. It's just pure dominance and everybody that plays in this league wants to be great.
"I think that's really where he was getting to when he was speaking on that."
Walker has started 60 of 63 career games – and started 17 regular-season games in 2023 and 2024 with 10 and 10.5 sacks, respectively. He has 27.5 sacks in four NFL seasons with three forced fumbles and 200 tackles, 101 solo, with 36 tackles for loss and 57 quarterback hits. He also has seven career passes defensed.
He started 12 of 14 games in 2025, playing through wrist and knee injuries as the Jaguars went 13-4 with an AFC South championship. He registered 38 tackles, 19 solo, and eight tackles for loss with 3.5 sacks and 13 quarterback hits.
"It definitely affected me with the injuries," Walker said. "It's football. It's a 100 percent injury rate. Those injuries are going to be there, but you have to continuously fight through those things. That's what I tried my best to do and as long as I'm not putting the team in a bad position in my eyes to jeopardize winning games, I'm going always try my best to be out there on the field regardless of banged up, hurt or not.
"Everybody around the league at a certain point in the season is going to be banged up. So, I just try to keep going."
Walker said his focus thus far this offseason has been "just working on getting healthy."
"Then, it's fine tuning those little, small details within my hands, eye coordination, things of that nature," he said. "Just trying to keep my twitch, as far as my strength, wrist mobility, working on a lot of things but it's just ironing out small details.
"You have to find those small little details within your game and continuously work those things."
