DENVER (AP) -Javon Walker has a new team and a new contract. However, the former Green Bay Packers wide receiver who signed an extension with the Denver Broncos on Wednesday still doesn't have everything he wants.

How about jersey No. 84?

That belongs to tight end Wesley Duke, an undrafted free agent last year out of Mercer.

``I was told there was a young man in NFL Europe right now who was holding that number, so maybe sooner or later I'll try to give him a call and see if I can bribe him out of that number,'' Walker said.

Walker sure has the wherewithal. His five-year extension that kicks in after next season is worth more than $40 million and includes roster bonuses totaling $15 million in 2007 and '08.

``Yeah, but I don't think I'll offer him any of that,'' Walker retorted. ``I might invite him over to my house. Yeah, he can come over and chill, hang out.''

Maybe grill him a steak and offer him a cold beer.

And if that doesn't work?

``I heard No. 19 was available.''

That was Jerry Rice's number during his short stint in camp last summer.

``Yeah, who wouldn't like to follow in his footsteps?'' Walker said.

His Pro Bowl footsteps, not the slowed ones that ended his stellar career on an inglorious note.

Walker is coming off a major knee injury that occurred in the Packers' opener last year, the very thing his then-agent Drew Rosenhaus feared when Walker was threatening to hold out for more money.

Walker started seeking a bigger paycheck after making the Pro Bowl following the 2004 season, when he caught 89 passes for 1,382 yards and 12 touchdowns.

After catching just four passes before getting hurt in 2005, Walker's unhappiness only deepened. He was upset that the Packers dismissed his contract complaints and also didn't appreciate Brett Favre telling him basically to put up and shut up.

Walker said his rift with Favre wasn't why he soured on Green Bay, however: ``I would play with Favre if he went to another team. The thing I liked about him was he gave me a chance to make plays.''

Walker's bigger problem was with general manager Ted Thompson, who refused to renegotiate his contract because he had two years left on the deal.

``I said, 'Let's just talk about it,''' Walker said. ``It was just a flat-out, disrespectful 'No.'''

After watching stalwart veterans have to leave through free agency (Darren Sharper, Mike Wahle, Marco Rivera), trades (Mike McKenzie) or be forced to sit out camp (Bubba Franks) to earn big contracts, Walker decided he was headed for the same treatment when his deal expired. So, he fired the first salvo, vowing to retire rather than play for the Packers again.

Thompson granted his wish on April 29, sending him to Denver for a second-round draft pick (37th overall).

Walker, 27, is due to make $1.15 million next season plus a $1 million roster bonus, part of the five-year, $7.485 million contract he signed after joining the Packers as a first-round draft pick out of Florida State in 2002.

Walker's new agent, Kennard McGuire, said there were no clauses in the $40 million-plus contract extension relating to the wide receiver's surgically repaired right knee.

Still, if his recovery from his torn anterior cruciate ligament doesn't go well, the Broncos won't be on the hook for much money because his first big bonus isn't due until March 2007.

``I think the Broncos already made an investment in him by trading a second-round draft pick for him,'' McGuire said. ``I don't think anybody trades a second-round draft pick just to procure someone's services for one year.''

Walker, who will resume his rehabilitation in Denver, predicted a full recovery

``I'm going to come back faster than I was before,'' he insisted.

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