What we saw from Spartan legend Kenneth Walker III during these NFL Playoffs was special. He capped off his incredible three-game postseason stretch with a Super Bowl MVP award, but people aren’t talking enough about what he’s done over the past month.
Walker capped off his impressive three-game stretch with that MVP award following a 160-yard performance in the Super Bowl. He was the best player in the biggest game.
Anyone who had been watching him during the NFL Playoffs was expecting a big game in the Super Bowl, and he delivered. He broke off big run after big run, making Patriots defenders look silly all night long, and it was pretty obvious that he had the MVP award locked up with both quarterbacks looking shaky.
Like I said, though, we aren’t talking enough about his three-game playoff stretch.
It was actually historic.
Most yards from scrimmage across a 3-game span in the postseason this century:
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Saquon Barkley (477)
Derrick Henry (467)
Saquon Barkley (451)
Larry Fitzgerald (445)
Marshall Faulk (431)
Cooper Kupp (422)
Christian McCaffrey (420)
Larry Fitzgerald (419)
KENNETH WALKER III (417) pic.twitter.com/o9adLIBNsc
Walker had the ninth-most scrimmage yards of any player in the NFL in a three-game playoff stretch since 2000. Think about how insane that is for a second.
Think of all the elite players that have won Super Bowls or have been to Super Bowls and have put up video game-like numbers during the NFL playoffs. Walker had the ninth-best postseason of any non-quarterback offensively since the turn of the century.
Spartan legend.
Kenneth Walker III has become a Seahawk legend
During the regular season, there were plenty of groans (including coming from me) about Walker not getting the red zone touches he deserved for being one of 17 rushers to reach 1,000 yards in the NFL this season. He would get Seattle into the red zone, and then the Seahawks would feed Zach Charbonnet at the goal line.
When Charbonnet got hurt, some were worried that Walker wouldn’t be able to shoulder the load just because he didn’t get a chance to while splitting with the RB2.
Walker silenced doubters from the first playoff game until the Super Bowl, totaling 417 scrimmage yards during the three-game postseason stretch, capturing the MVP award with a heroic performance against the New England Patriots.
Not only is he a Spartan legend for his five-touchdown performance against Michigan back in 2021, he’s now a Seahawk legend.
He’d be putting this Super Bowl MVP trophy right next to the Doak Walker Award and a Heisman Trophy on his mantle if it weren’t for some erroneous Heisman voting back in 2021.