After halftime, Walker ripped off a 20-yard catch and run to set up the Seahawks’ fourth field goal of the game. Then in the fourth quarter, Walker ripped off runs of 14 and 10 yards and helped the Seahawks take a 22-7 lead the Patriots couldn’t come back from.<\/p>\n
Walker didn’t score a touchdown — at least not officially, anyway. He shredded the Patriots for what appeared to be a 49-yard TD cherry on top, but it was called back by a hold on center Jalen Sundell<\/a>. But by that point, the game was academic.<\/p>\n “The O-line had the hole wide open,” Walker said. “I just really had to beat the safety and whoever was on my left. Scored, looked back, there’s a flag, and that’s probably the worst feeling ever. But, you know, we won the game, so I’m not going to complain.”<\/p>\n The Patriots bottled up Jaxon Smith-Njigba<\/a>, who left the game in the second half while being evaluated for a concussion, and held Sam Darnold<\/a> to 5.0 yards per pass attempt.<\/p>\n Walker accounted for 48% of the Seahawks’ offensive yards, using his patience, contact balance and burst to punish New England.<\/p>\n “We worked at it all week,” Walker said. “This week, last week. We worked on the run game and knew that was gonna make an impact on this game.”<\/p>\n What made Walker’s night all the more impressive is that it was the most rushing yards allowed by a very good Patriots defense this season, including playoffs. He also totaled 111 yards or more in four straight games to close the season, including the Week 18 top-seed clincher against the 49ers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After halftime, Walker ripped off a 20-yard catch and run to set up the Seahawks’ fourth field goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,787,7,21660,249,88,6,609,1878,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-739729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kenny-walker-iii","12":"tag-new-england-patriots","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-no-minute","16":"tag-sam-darnold","17":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116039512699720553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739729","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=739729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}