Walter Rouse

Walter Rouse is from Silver Spring, Maryland, and went to Sidwell Friends School. He started 39 of 40 games at Stanford from 2019 to 2022 and earned honorable-mention All-Pac-12 in 2022. He first committed to transfer to Nebraska but flipped to Oklahoma, where he started all 12 games in 2023 and was Big 12 honorable mention. Minnesota drafted him in the sixth round, 177th overall, in 2024. On August 30, 2026, the Vikings traded him and a 2027 seventh-round pick to New England for a 2027 sixth-rounder. He is now a guard for the Patriots. Tidbits: he earned the Eagle Scout rank in 2017. He is also the grandson of NBA player Vic Rouse, who hit the overtime buzzer-beater that won the 1963 NCAA championship. The Oklahoman (Web Edition) wrote on September 7, 2023: "One of his grandfathers hit the winning shot for Loyola in the 1963 NCAA championship basketball game against Cincinnati. Another was in the Peace Corps and founded Africare, a non-profit providing developmental air [sic] for Africa." The same article says: "For two summers as a middle schooler, Rouse attended the Physician Scientist Training Program for Biomedical Research Training at the Dallas school."