{"id":3215,"date":"2026-03-10T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/3215\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:58:12","slug":"chiefs-news-3-10-signing-kenneth-walker-points-to-scheme-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/3215\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs News 3\/10: Signing Kenneth Walker points to scheme shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Walker had 14 carries for 20 yards on RPO play calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Chiefs are changing who will be running the football \u2014 and, ideally, how they\u2019re running the football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Or at least they better, if they want to take advantage of the skill-set of the player who will cost them $45 million over the next three years. (You don\u2019t spend $45 million without knowing what has made the player great.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">It would make far less sense to ask Walker to completely change what\u2019s made him successful than it would for the Chiefs to change something that has driven so little of their success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Walker spends more time in the backfield than literally any other running back in football, per Next Gen Stats. He isn\u2019t exactly a straight downhill runner, averaging 3.19 seconds to cross the line of scrimmage, highest in the NGS decade-long era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">He\u2019s different than what the Chiefs employed a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Chiefs needed a different talent. But they also need a modification to the running scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walker had 14 carries for 20 yards on RPO play calls. That\u2019s it. The Chiefs are changing who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2872,8,2873,9,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-3215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-arrowheadlines","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116205709082839627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}