Jaxson Walls

Opposing the McCauley Rules

Jaxson believed players knowingly accepted football’s physical risks and opposed public outrage dictating policy. He accepted hard blindside hits during live play and hits on exposed receivers attempting catches as part of the sport.

He said, “It’s a grown man’s sport, you’re expected to get hit if you can’t handle some rough play without crying you shouldn’t be playing.” He also resented critics discounting his career because of the offensive environment, calling himself the “Unanimous G.O.A.T In any other Era.” That was his own claim.

When challenged about benefiting from the protections, he argued that other quarterbacks received the same advantages and that he neither wanted nor needed them: “It’s like playing bowling with the guardrails up when your a pro bowler, it’s stupid as fuck”. Zach disagreed with Jaxson’s position but respected his right to argue.

After the commissioner’s private opposition was exposed in 2037, Jaxson treated the recording as vindication and demanded repeal. He later resented Tyrese keeping him off the reform podium but cooperated. In 2060, he supported the completed reforms as a workable compromise.

Childhood and upbringing

Jaxson grew up in a normal, loving household in Phoenix. Nothing in his family environment explains the relentlessness, argumentativeness or total self-belief that defined him; the temperament was simply present from the beginning. Where Mac inherited steadiness from Thomas, Jaxson’s competitive fire appeared to generate itself.

High school and recruitment

Jaxson was already dominant and vocal in high school. His talent drew serious attention, but an obvious ‘my way or the highway’ quality shaped how programs and later professional scouts evaluated him. By Arizona State, he was viewed as a generational arm attached to a potentially serious personality risk.

Arizona State and draft night

Phoenix was home, and the Arizona Cardinals were the team Jaxson wanted. Arizona passed on him, and the Rams eventually traded up to select him 49th overall—pick 17 of the second round—after character concerns pushed lottery-level talent down the board.

At his introductory press conference, before playing a professional snap, Jaxson promised to make the Cardinals regret passing on him for the rest of their existence. It became the first major public declaration of the career and fixed much of his reputation before he had proven anything.

Marriage and fatherhood

Jaxson dated Kate Summers from 2016 to 2019. Their son, Maverick Walls, was born on June 16, 2017. Jaxson met Chloe Harper in 2025, and they married in 2029. Chloe is Maverick’s stepmother. Chloe was the only person described as knowing his real private self. She never tried to correct the public record because she understood that a wife defending her husband’s character would be dismissed regardless of what she said.

His relationship with Maverick was emotionally limited rather than hostile. There was no rupture or public falling-out, but Maverick grew up devoted to Matthew “Hollywood” Hall and never named his own father the GOAT. That verdict never changed, and there was no late reconciliation or softening of it.

Chloe Walls

Chloe was confident, direct and independent, while also quiet, observant, thoughtful, warm, patient and grounded. She met Jaxson in 2025 while working as a Football Operations Coordinator for the Rams. His confidence and passion, their conversations and their shared interests attracted her. She enjoyed watching and playing sports, outdoor activities and gardening.

Kate Summers

Kate was outgoing, playful and sarcastic, as well as confident, direct and independent. She and Jaxson met at a college campus event or party. She enjoyed writing, creative interests in art or music, and travel. They gradually grew apart and ended their relationship in 2019, but remained friendly and cooperative as Maverick’s parents.

Bountygate

Camden Ryder created and ran the illegal bounty scheme without Jaxson’s blessing. Jaxson knew about it, disapproved and remained silent rather than expose his coach and winning system. Protecting Ryder made him complicit, cost him a suspension and left a permanent public stain he never corrected.

Retirement and NEFL ownership

After a 25-year playing career, Jaxson purchased the NEFL’s Boston Minutemen, relocated the franchise to Phoenix and renamed it the Arizona Rattlers. He also named the stadium field after himself.

The move was a direct, spite-driven answer to Mac’s earlier and unrelated purchase of the Top Guns—a decades-later finishing move against the city and rejection that shaped Jaxson’s career from draft night onward.

Death

Jaxson Walls died from old age on January 23, 2095, at 97 years old. He remained the WAU’s largest gap between statistical résumé and public reception: an overwhelming raw case for the crown that never became the unanimous answer.