Herschel Walker is known for a lot of things besides being a professional football player, but it turns out, most of those other things aren’t true.  According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Walker has some more lies on his resume:  he repeatedly claimed to be a law enforcement officer, including one time when he said he was an FBI agent.

For the record, there are no records that Walker ever worked in law enforcement.  He was once made an honorary deputy for DeKalb County, Georgia, but former DeKalb County District Attorney J. Tom Morgan described the title as honorary, saying it was like “a junior ranger badge.”

In 2019, Walker also told a group of soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington that he had attended the FBI academy at Quantico, Virginia.  “I spent time at Quantico at the FBI training school. Y’all didn’t know I was an agent?” he said.  He didn’t; the FBI has no record of Walker ever applying for or attending the academy.

One part of Walker’s story that undermines his claim:  to be an FBI agent, you have to have a college degree.  Although Walker claimed he graduated at the top of his class at the University of Georgia with a degree in criminal science, Walker never graduated and has never completed his studies for a bachelor’s degree.

Following a 2001 incident in which Walker, armed with a handgun, attempted to track down a man who was late delivering a car to Walker’s Irving, Texas home, he claimed to have been a “certified peace officer.”  He did not provide any support for this claim, although his campaign asserts that he is an honorary deputy in DeKalb County as well as three other jurisdictions; they could not name which ones.