{"id":647754,"date":"2026-01-02T09:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647754\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:34:17","slug":"kenneth-walker-iii-week-18-preview-vs-the-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647754\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Walker III Week 18 Preview vs. the 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker III has a difficult matchup in Week 18 (Saturday at 8 p.m. ET), facing the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers are allowing the sixth-fewest rushing yards in the league, 103.3 per game.<\/p>\n<p>On 205 carries this year, Walker has picked up a team-best 930 rushing yards (58.1 ypg) and has five rushing touchdowns. As a receiver, Walker has also grabbed 27 passes for 246 yards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62735?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1441&amp;pb=959275&amp;cid=MafLhyIVYU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch this game on Fubo<\/a> (Regional restrictions may apply).<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the game on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/live\/1077-the-bone-5529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">107.7 The Bone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walker vs. the 49ers<\/p>\n<p>Walker vs the 49ers (since 2021): 3 GP \/ 35.3 RUSH YPG \/ 2 RUSH TD<br \/>\nThe 49ers have allowed 100 or more yards to only two opposing rushers during the 2025 season.<br \/>\nSan Francisco has allowed 10 opposing rushers to record one or more TDs on the groun against them this year.<br \/>\nOnly two opposing rushers have scored two or more TDs on the ground against the 49ers this season.<br \/>\nThe 49ers yield 103.3 yards per game on the ground, the NFL&#8217;s sixth-ranked rush defense this season.<br \/>\nOpponents of the 49ers have totaled 12 touchdowns on the ground (0.8 per game). The 49ers&#8217; defense is seventh in the NFL in that category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62736?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1422&amp;pb=959284&amp;cid=MafLhyIVYU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Catch every NFL touchdown with NFL RedZone on Fubo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walker Rushing Insights<\/p>\n<p>Walker has hit the rushing yards over in eight of 16 opportunities (50.0%).<br \/>\nThe Seahawks have passed 49.3% of the time and run 50.7% this season. They rank second in the NFL in scoring.<br \/>\nHis team has attempted 468 rushes this season. He&#8217;s handled 205 of those carries (43.8%).<br \/>\nWalker has a rushing touchdown in four of 16 games this season, including multiple rushing TDs once.<br \/>\nHe has 11.6% of his team&#8217;s 43 offensive touchdowns this season (five).<br \/>\nHe has 30 carries in the red zone (34.5% of his team&#8217;s 87 red zone rushes).<\/p>\n<p>Get in the game and sign up for FanDuel Fantasy today. <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/70562?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=4416&amp;cid=MafLhyIVYU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Use our link<\/a> to start playing daily fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Walker&#8217;s Recent Performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker III has a difficult matchup in Week 18 (Saturday at 8 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,61566,7,9295,6,1161,252,2624,2623,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-647754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-ds-sports","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kenneth-walker-iii","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","17":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115824824488176841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}