According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the former Cowboys running back who won the Heisman while at the University of Georgia will reveal in an upcoming book that he has multiple personality disorder. Walker also played for the Vikings, Eagles and Giants in an NFL career that was largely a disappointment considering his vast potential. 
His trade from Dallas to the Vikings in 1989 is viewed as one of the most lopsided deals in pro sports history, and was a huge reason the Cowboys became a dynasty in the early 1990s.
Whoa.
A publicist at Simon & Schuster, which is publishing the book, said that "Breaking Free" will cover Walker's life with the disorder, the newspaper paper reported. Shida Carr offered no other details and would not give the Journal-Constitution an excerpt, according to the report.
Some of Walker's former teammates were disbelieving of the revelation about mutliple personalities.
"I'm probably one of his closest friends and that's news to me," Frank Ros, a Coca-Cola executive who played linebacker and was captain of Georgia's 1980 national championship team, told the Journal-Constitution. "I knew he was working on a book but I just thought it was about football. He does 100 things at once and always has projects going on but that blows me away."
In a word: weird.
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Hmm, maybe the Vikes were aware and it impacted their decision to acquire him in exchange for 11 warm, athletic, singular personalities. Fair is fair, no?