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Kansas City Signs Super Bowl LX MVP Kenneth Walker to Three Years, $43M — Adding the Seahawks' Bell Cow to a Dynasty
127 yards and two touchdowns in the Super Bowl. Now he plays for Patrick Mahomes. The Chiefs upgraded their running back with the player who beat them eight weeks ago.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
The Kansas City Chiefs signed running back Kenneth Walker to a three-year contract worth $43.05 million with $28.7 million fully guaranteed on Thursday, adding the Super Bowl LX Most Valuable Player to an offense that has now won three championships in the last six seasons.
Walker, 25, earned MVP honors in Super Bowl LX with 127 rushing yards and two touchdowns in Seattle's 29-13 victory — the performance that defined his public profile entering free agency and set the market price that Kansas City ultimately met. He spent three seasons with the Seahawks as their primary ball carrier, averaging 4.6 yards per carry over his career and producing at least 900 rushing yards in each of his last two seasons.
The acquisition fills a meaningful need for a Kansas City running game that ranked in the middle tier of the league in 2025. Walker gives Patrick Mahomes a proven short-yardage and fourth-quarter option whose championship experience aligns with the standards Andy Reid's program has established over the course of the dynasty. The Chiefs also retain Travis Kelce — who re-signed on a one-year deal — and re-signed safety Alohi Gilman as part of a week-two free agency push that kept the franchise's core largely intact while upgrading the running back position.
Kansas City's pattern of acquiring high-profile players who have already proven themselves in playoff environments — rather than drafting unproven athletes at premium positions — is characteristic of how the organization has sustained its window. Walker won a Super Bowl ring in Seattle and is now on the team that has won the most Super Bowls of any franchise in his era. The acquisition is efficient in exactly the way the Chiefs' organizational decision-making tends to be.
The Seahawks, who lost Walker without receiving compensation in free agency, had already addressed the running back position internally before the new league year opened.
Sources: "Chiefs sign Kenneth Walker," ESPN | "2026 NFL free agency tracker," NFL.com | "Chiefs free agency moves," CBS Sports
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