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I thought of the Tui parallel as well.  And I side with youse both about being more interested in the Nick Franklin style pick than the uber-athlete pick.
The other thing with the guys blessed with freakish pure athleticism...  there's a greater liklihood they haven;t had to work as hard to excel, or success has come more easily than guys who have been more dogged.  If Walker is showing great things with little development, I think it's not safe at all to extrapolate some seriously skewed learning curve.  The tell would be if he plateaus early and can work himself out of that to the next level.
This pick surprised me quite a bit, because it just doesn't seem like Z's style.  Mighta been my own bias reading in to it, but what little I heard of his comments on the pick, he didn't sound super enthusiastic.  Gut feeling, Z chose to let McNamara take the guy he wanted, but if it was up to him, it would've been someone else.  Wild speculation, that.