The Seattle Seahawks made Kenneth Walker III’s return to town a rough one, and the Kansas City Chiefs felt the full sting of it in a 20-3 loss Sunday night.
Walker was back in Seattle for the first time since leaving the team in free agency, and the result clearly didn’t sit well. After the game, he bypassed the usual postgame handshakes with Seahawks players and coaches and went straight to the locker room.
This was Walker’s first chance to face the franchise that drafted him in the second round of the 2022 NFL Draft with the 41st overall pick. He spent four seasons with Seattle, but the Seahawks chose not to give him a new contract before free agency opened.
Kansas City moved quickly, signing him to a three-year, $43 million deal on March 9. That made him the first Super Bowl MVP to change teams the following season since safety Dexter Jackson left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the Arizona Cardinals in 2003.
Walker came into the offseason as the top running back on the market, and the Chiefs wasted no time making him part of their plans. He had been a key piece in Kansas City’s offense during its 5-0 start, but Seattle’s defense put the clamps on him in a game that also marked the first time a reigning Super Bowl MVP had faced his former team the next season after signing elsewhere.
The Seahawks held Walker to 36 rushing yards on 14 carries, a quiet night at 2.6 yards per attempt. Seattle’s defense looked nothing like the group that had been stumbling through a two-game losing streak; instead, it came out sharp and controlled the game from start to finish.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba turned in an outstanding performance, and Seattle rode that plus its defensive effort to a convincing win that lifted the team to 4-3. Kansas City, meanwhile, dropped to 5-1 even with tight end Travis Kelce reaching a significant career milestone.
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