{"id":705243,"date":"2026-06-15T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705243\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:10:08","slug":"andy-reid-patrick-mahomes-pleased-with-what-kenneth-walker-is-bringing-to-chiefs-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705243\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes pleased with what Kenneth Walker is bringing to Chiefs&#8217; offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chiefs made a big offseason move to sign running back Kenneth Walker, the reigning Super Bowl MVP, away from the Seahawks. Coach Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes think Walker is going to prove worth every penny of his three-year, $43 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>Reid said after watching Walker during the offseason program that the way he approaches practice is exactly what the Chiefs were hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48995215\/why-chiefs-believe-kenneth-walker-transform-offense-free-agency-otas-offseason-super-bowl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">He\u2019s got a ton of energy<\/a>, and you can tell he loves to play the game [and] wants to learn what we\u2019re doing here,\u201d Reid said, via ESPN. \u201cHe gets that it takes work to be good, and he\u2019s willing to do that. Stronger than an ox. I mean, he\u2019s put together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes and other offensive players have commented that Walker is eager to involve himself in every aspect of the Chiefs\u2019 offense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can tell he truly cares about football, he cares about his teammates,\u201d Mahomes said. \u201cIf he\u2019s not in the play, he\u2019s helping the guys on the sideline and he\u2019s trying to learn and [is] asking me questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs made a big investment in Walker, and it\u2019s going to take a lot more than unpadded practices in the spring for that investment to pay off. But Reid and Mahomes think he\u2019s off to a strong start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chiefs made a big offseason move to sign running back Kenneth Walker, the reigning Super Bowl MVP,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-705243","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\/705243","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=705243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}