{"id":7456,"date":"2023-09-27T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2023-09-27T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T17:44:08","slug":"kenneth-walker-iii-named-nfc-offensive-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7456","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Walker III named NFC Offensive Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>For the first time in his NFL career, Kenneth Walker III has been named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time in his career, Kenneth Walker III has been named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week award after the Seahawks&#8217; 37-27 win over the Carolina Panthers. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NFC Offensive Player of the Week. <\/p>\n<p>Seahawks RB Kenneth Walker. <\/p>\n<p>What a week. Some dominant in a game we truly needed him to step up. He did. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bhh8iadlmp\">pic.twitter.com\/bhh8iadlmp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sports ON Tap Seattle (@SeattleONTap) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeattleONTap\/status\/1707064333208109172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a lot of fans, especially Michigan State fans, this award should not come as a surprise. It was more of not if this was going to happen, it was when this was going to happen and it finally did. After Walker&#8217;s rookie year, NFL fans knew that he was going to be a very good running back in the NFL, and this was again proven this past week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Against the Panthers, Walker ran for 97 yards and two touchdowns. He also had 59 yards receiving out of the backfield.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this performance, he finally earned the award that you could argue he deserved maybe a few other times. Not only is it impressive to win this award, it is even more impressive in the way that Walker did it. The Seahawks love using at least a two-running back system and they continued that in this game. Walker and Zach Charbonnet both combined for over 130 yards in this game and a majority of those yards were from the former. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a great start for the year for Walker and it seems like he just keeps getting better, which is hard to believe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watching the Seahawks might just be something all Michigan State fans should do, especially because watching Kenneth Walker play is worth it because there always seems to be one <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/kenneth-walker-iii-had-one-best-jukes-youll-see-all-year\/\">highlight that stands out<\/a>. This was definitely a well-deserved honor and hopefully the first of many to come for Walker in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge honor for K9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":7462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[224,191,189,504],"class_list":["post-7456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pro-spartans","tag-kenneth-walker-iii","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}