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Kenneth Walker changes EVERYTHING in Kansas City

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Sep 8, 2026
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Tue, September 8, 2026
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Kenneth Walker IIIRashee Rice
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Kenneth Walker III

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Matt Harmon believes the team signed Kenneth Walker to fundamentally change their offensive approach, moving away from using wide receivers like Rashee Rice as an extension of the run game. Harmon expects Walker to take over the screen and backfield work, while also providing a more traditional, explosive downhill rushing presence to improve a team that ranked last in explosive run rate over the past two years.

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Rashee Rice

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Matt Harmon expresses concern for Rashee Rice's fantasy outlook, noting that his current role involves absorbing significant hits on short, underneath routes. Harmon argues that the team's acquisition of Kenneth Walker is intended to shift the offense toward a more traditional downhill run game, which will likely reduce the 'designer' screen and backfield work that Rice previously relied on for production. Harmon suggests this makes Rice a risky pick at his current top-30 ADP in Best Ball.

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0:00He's not built like a running back, but
0:01much like a running back, Rashee Rice is
0:03absorbing a lot of hits, man. They are
0:04asking him to go underneath, across the
0:07middle, a lot of short routes. He's
0:08getting tackled a lot.
0:09>> The other part of this, James, that I
0:10think is more concerning for Rice, and
0:13again, it comes back to this chart, 43%
0:16slant screen. I think they signed
0:19Kenneth Walker to do away with some of
0:22this extension of the run game work in
0:25the passing game, the screens, the
0:27backfield stuff, the kind of designer
0:29things to Rashee Rice underneath, and
0:31they were just going to have a more
0:31traditional downhill run game this year.
0:33And also, they're going to use Kenneth
0:34Walker from a screen perspective. I
0:36mean, this is literally the worst
0:38rushing game over the last 2 years in
0:40explosive run rate by a pretty decent
0:43gap between them at 32, 2.9% to over 5%
0:47to the 31st team, which was the Las
0:49Vegas Raiders. That's just a fundamental
0:51change for us when you bring in Ken
0:52Walker here, and I think as long as he's
0:54healthy, we're going to see more of that
0:56and less of the kind of designer stuff
0:58to Rice, which you're kind of counting
0:59on that staying the same
1:02if you're taking Rashee Rice as a top 30
1:04player in Best Ball right now.

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