Friday 23 October 2026 21:00, UK Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Speaking on the Inside the Huddle podcast, Neil Reynolds and Phoebe Schecter believe the Kansas City Chiefs are no longer as reliant on Patrick Mahomes, with their strength in depth giving them more ways to win Kenneth Walker III returns to Seattle for the first time since his blockbuster exit this Sunday as he leads out the Kansas City Chiefs against the same Seahawks team he inspired to Super Bowl glory back in February. The running back posted 135 yards on the ground as Mike Macdonald’s side beat the New England Patriots at the NFL’s showpiece climax in Santa Clara. But instead of extending the Super Bowl MVP, Seattle allowed Walker to hit free agency, where he would sign a three-year $45m deal with the Chiefs as their marquee needle-shoving offseason addition. Behind Walker Patrick Mahomes’ refurbished, reinvigorated dynasty Chiefs are back in Super Bowl contention; he has changed the game entirely for Andy Reid.
Next in line – his old flame.Rock bottom to NFL stardom: The rise of London’s Jermaine EluemunorNFL 2026 fixtures and UK kickoff timesGet Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Kansas City Chiefs running back Kenneth Walker III rushes for a 60-yard touchdown Live NFL Sunday 25th October 1:00pm “It’s going to be a special moment for him,” said Chiefs quarterback Mahomes. “You get to go back to the place where you built your career, where you won a Super Bowl. “Those fans are the people that were around him for all of that. Those are a still a lot of the guys that were his teammates, that he grew up with as well in the NFL.
“At the end of the day, you’ve got to win a football game. He knows we have his back.” A merry Seahawks GM John Schneider joked during his side’s Super Bowl parade of how Walker had tried to negotiate a new deal with him five minutes earlier, describing the moment as ‘weird’. What was instead weirder was the decision not to extend a defining figure in Seattle’s Lombardi surge.Still, it would become a broken Chiefs team’s transformative gain, Walker having since provided an MVP-calibre impact to an offense that had lost all identity, all spark, all pizzazz in recent years. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Highlights from Super Bowl 60 as the Seattle Seahawks took on the New England Patriots in California Walker leads the NFL with 665 rushing yards at 6.3 yards per carry through six weeks, while averaging a league-most 133 yards on the ground per game and having scored a tied-second-most eight touchdowns from scrimmage.
His 760 scrimmage yards are second only to Bijan Robinson, and no back has broken more tackles or averaged more yards after contact per carry than Walker.In doing so he has dictated a heightened respect for the Chiefs’ activity out of the backfield, coupled with the scrambling ability of Mahomes. His immediate threat has unleashed Kansas City’s play-action game, and so too Mahomes’ freedom to stretch the field with the deep-shot aggression and three-level concepts that have been largely non-existent in the last couple of seasons. It is a Chiefs offense reborn, and Walker has been at the heart of change. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold and Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III celebrated their win over the New England Patriots at Disneyland!
“If you have one weak link in the chain, the great running backs will find that. Ken will do that, and he has the past bunch of games this season,” said Seahawks safety Julian Love.While the Chiefs rank second in rushing offense, the Seahawks lie down in 18th with an average of 107.2 yards per game as they await the return of Zach Charbonnet, who was activated off the PUP list this week.Charbonnet had been Seattle’s starting running back over Walker before tearing his ACL in the playoffs, during which the latter recorded 65 carries for 313 yards and four touchdowns alongside nine catches for 104 yards.The Chiefs have long yearned for another superstar face on offense with which to support Mahomes, particularly coming into his first season since last December’s year-ending knee injury. Walker has lived up to the billing and more, inspiring the return of Mahomes magic by becoming the face of Andy Reid’s attack. Few saw it going quite this well.The Seahawks chose not to pay him.
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To view this content you can use the button below to allow cookies for this session only. 5 things to watch live on Sky:Bonjour, Paris!The NFL is primed to make more history on Sunday when the New Orleans Saints host the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first-ever regular-season game to be played in Paris, France.The iconic Stade de France opens its doors as the newest host stadium to football, with Paris featuring among a record nine international games being played during the 2026 campaign and joining Melbourne and Rio de Janeiro as a brand new territory for the league.Civil unrest around the city has dominated much of this week’s build-up to the game, however the NFL remain in constant communication with French authorities and insist they do not expect Sunday’s game to be disrupted. Aaron Rodgers’ Steelers enter the contest 4-2 following last Sunday’s overtime victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, while the Saints are 2-4 coming off their win at the New York Giants. , which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable cookies or to allow those cookies just once.
You can change your settings at any time via the Privacy Options. cookies. To view this content you can use the button below to allow cookies for this session only. McCarthy’s time in New YorkMore change awaits at quarterback for the Giants as J.J. McCarthy prepares to make his first start under center against the Houston Texans, taking the reins from Jameis Winston in the wake of last weekend’s impressive cameo against the Saints.McCarthy threatened an unlikely Giants comeback when entered the game while trailing by 24 in the fourth quarter before throwing for 243 yards, the most-ever across an 11-minute span in NFL history.
It has prompted John Harbaugh to go and find out what he has (or doesn’t have) in the former first-round pick, who arrived via a trade from the Minnesota Vikings following the season-ending injury to Jaxson Dart.McCarthy’s NFL career has stuttered since he entered the league as the 10th overall pick in 2024, injury in his rookie preseason opening the door for Sam Darnold’s career-resurrection before a combination of poor play, more injuries and the eventual arrival of Kyler Murray would spell the end in Minnesota. Now, is his chance. With a Malik Nabers-sized talisman at his disposal. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Kylian Mbappe joins Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson to try on NFL gear and take part in a series of drills, with the football superstar left stunned by just how tight the kit was.
Watch the full video on the NFL website Rams woes and the NFL’s best TE duo?The NFL has its share of elite wide receiver tandems, from Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins to CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens to Puka Nacua and Davante Adams.Frightening tight end tandems are a little less common, but the Las Vegas Raiders have forged one of their own. Brock Bowers rightly gets the acclaim as Klint Kubiak’s prized weapon on offense – looking every bit a wide receiver in a tight end’s body – but it is
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