{"id":850085,"date":"2026-09-16T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850085\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:00:11","slug":"ken-walker-earns-afc-offensive-player-of-the-week-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850085\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Walker Earns AFC \u201cOffensive Player of the Week\u201d Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a debut to remember for tailback Ken Walker on Monday night, and following a career-best performance, the league sent some recognition his way on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Walker earned AFC &#8220;Offensive Player of the Week&#8221; honors for Week 1 after the veteran tailback amassed a career-high 191 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns in Monday night&#8217;s victory over Denver. The reigning Super Bowl MVP recorded 179 yards after contact in the game, breaking a league-most 14 tackles along the way. He also ripped off two runs of 20+ yards in the game, nearly matching the Chiefs&#8217; combined total number of runs as a team all of last year (3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a debut to remember for tailback Ken Walker on Monday night, and following a career-best performance,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[7650,9370,399,33894,6946,1236,349,9644,1821,99,1803,33896,33895,33897,4144],"class_list":["post-850085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-andy-reid","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-geha-field-at-arrowhead-stadium","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-football","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl","tag-super-bowl-iv","tag-super-bowl-liv","tag-super-bowl-lvii","tag-travis-kelce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850085","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=850085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}