In this paper, we recover certain known results about the ladder representations of GL(n, Qp) defined and studied by Lapid, Mínguez, and Tadić. We work in the equivalent setting of graded Hecke algebra modules. Using the Arakawa-Suzuki functor from category O to graded Hecke algebra modules, we show that the determinantal formula proved by Lapid-Mínguez and Tadić is a direct consequence of the BGG resolution of finite dimensional simple gl(n)−modules. We make a connection between the semisimplicity of Hecke algebra modules, unitarity with respect to a certain hermitian form, and ladder representations.