High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Gaye Schlinkman is a former fullback in the NFL who played 46 games for the Green Bay Packers. In 1945, the Green Bay Packers used the 11th pick in the 1st round of the 1945 NFL Draft to sign Schlinkman out of Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University). Schlinkman went on to play for four seasons with the Packers and retired in 1949.