Ex-49er Delanie Walker: Jim Harbaugh is 'crazy,' once practiced in full pads

Tennessee Titans tight end Delanie Walker wasn't at all surprised to see photos of Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh running around shirtless at one of his recent satellite camps.

Walker played two seasons under Harbaugh with the San Francisco 49ers, and became accustomed to his crazy antics.

"It didn't surprise me one bit,'' Walker told Jim Wyatt of The Tennessean. "Harbaugh doesn't surprise anyone. He does whatever he feels like doing. Truthfully, I think Harbaugh still thinks he's a player, not a coach."

Walker recalled one particular 49ers practice in which Harbaugh showed up in full pads because the team was short on quarterbacks.

​"He dressed up in full gear and practiced the whole practice - pads, helmets, everything on. He had the whole uniform on,'' Walker said. "We came out and said, 'Who is that dude out there?' And it was Jim Harbaugh. He had some old high top cleats on.

"He did pretty good. He just couldn't throw the deep, deep pass."

Harbaugh left the 49ers at the end of last season to return to the college level, where he managed to transform a Stanford team that had compiled a 16-40 record in the previous five seasons into a legitimate contender.

"I think he is going to be great (at Michigan),'' Walker said. "People buy into his philosophy. Every team he has ever been on has been good, right? So you tell me what he is going to do. Young kids love to have a coach who is crazy."