After being a late addition to the injury report with illness on Saturday, Kenneth Walker III was active for Sunday’s matchup against the Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. And if you would have watched the game without knowing he was sick, you wouldn’t have known. He really showed no signs of illness as he played his way to two touchdowns.
And if overcoming illness wasn’t enough of an interesting twist on a game, the Seahawks’ running back was also playing on a special day, his 24th birthday.
In other words, the sick man was sick, man.
“He was sick today, man,” Geno Smith said following the game. “Two touchdowns on his birthday. That was sick, man. I thought he did a great job. Obviously, he was under the weather, a little bit of his flu game today on his birthday. I think that’s spectacular. It might be the first time that’s ever happened, but he’s a guy we rely on the way that he fought and battled it out. I know he wasn’t feeling his best, but to come out and do what he did on his birthday, I thought that was excellent.”