no shortage<\/a> of potential suitors for Walker. In typical fashion, however, some franchises figure to be a more likely landing spot than others, especially when you consider the current state of the overall running back market.<\/p>\n\u201cJavonte Williams heads into the combine and gets that $8 million per year from the Dallas Cowboys and that kind of served as a marker for this market,\u201d Jones explained. \u201cDoes a team want Kenneth Walker III at $14-ish million, or do they want an [Travis] Etienne at $10 million? It\u2019s going to be how you value that player against what the price is ultimately going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Given the recent rumors involving the Denver Broncos attempt at trading for the New York Jets RB Breece Hall, Jones suggested that the AFC runner ups could be considered one potential team. In light of the seemingly-inevitable departure of the aforementioned Etienne, Jones also ventured to guess that the Jacksonville Jaguars could be considered as a potential candidate as well.<\/p>\n
Much to the delight of the fantasy football community, the third team on Jones\u2019 list proved to be the Kansas City Chiefs, who have been desperately in need of a capable ball carrier ever since the initial decline of Isiah Pacheco. From a pure production standpoint, it\u2019s hard to dislike the idea of pairing any running back, let alone one of Walker\u2019s caliber, with a quarterback who\u2019s as transcendent as Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n
Throw in the fact that the Chiefs also have nearly $25 million in cap space to play with, as well as their failed attempt at trading for Hall at the 2025 trade deadline, and it certainly seems more plausible than not that Kansas City could be in the market for Walker. There were also rumors tying Walker\u2019s future to the New York Giants, but according to Jones, that\u2019s highly unlikely given the current lay of the land.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know a lot of people have been talking about the Giants,\u201d Jones noted. \u201cI would be surprised if the Giants got in on Kenneth Walker III at that top-tier price.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jones ultimately closed by noting that fans shouldn\u2019t completely rule out the possibility of Walker returning to Seattle earlier, but given his expected cost, most are assuming that the Seahawks have essentially been priced out. There\u2019s a lot of cash that needs to be spread around in order to retain the bulk of a championship roster, so unless the franchise is willing to cut a few corners elsewhere, then it seems rather safe to say that Walker has played his final down for his soon-to-be former team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With him currently holding the title of reigning Super Bowl MVP, it\u2019s safe to say that Kenneth Walker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,9295,112327,6,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-801564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kenneth-walker-iii","10":"tag-kenneth-walker-next-team","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks","15":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116197259250319914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801564","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=801564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}