{"id":700663,"date":"2026-06-12T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/700663\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:51:09","slug":"kenneth-walker-iii-missed-super-bowl-ring-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/700663\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Walker III missed Super Bowl ring ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, the Seahawks got their Super Bowl rings. Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III wasn\u2019t there to get his.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-draft appearance on #PFTPM, Walker said <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ie-QCtBWlJQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he intended to attend <\/a>the ring ceremony. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, he\u2019s the only member of the 2025 Seahawks who did not attend.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear why Walker didn\u2019t make the trip. The most obvious explanation is that the Chiefs\u2019 mandatory minicamp <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chiefs.com\/news\/chiefs-wrap-up-mandatory-minicamp-at-the-team-facility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">concluded on Thursday<\/a>. And his current priority is his new employer.<\/p>\n<p>As it should be. Yes, it would be nice if the MVP of the Super Bowl had been present to receive the piece of jewelry commemorating the achievement. But Walker has moved on. As he said during the #PFTPM interview, he knew during the 2025 season that his future didn\u2019t include playing for the Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p>It was time to turn the page. To focus on the task at hand. Which consists of pursuing his second ring, while also helping quarterback Patrick Mahomes get his fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday night, the Seahawks got their Super Bowl rings. Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III wasn\u2019t there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-700663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}