Kenneth Walker III isn’t just leading the NFL in rushing and scrimmage yards through two weeks, he’s putting up numbers that haven’t been seen in nearly a decade. The dude, fresh off earning last year’s Super Bowl MVP award, has absolutely shredded the Denver Broncos and Indianapolis Colts defenses in primetime, proving he’s still the king of the mountain.
Unprecedented Dominance on the Ground
Through just two weeks of the 2026 season, Walker is the NFL leader in yards from scrimmage with 369, and he’s leading the pack in rushing yards with a ridiculous 290. That’s a whopping 72 more than Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry, who is sitting in second place. While his offensive line has looked solid, Walker is straight up creating an insane amount of yardage on his own. On Sunday night against the Colts, he forced a career-high 15 missed tackles, according to NFL Next Gen Stats. Think that’s a lot? His previous high was 14 just last week against Denver. We’re talking about a guy who makes defenders look silly almost every snap.
Rewriting the Record Books Early On
Those 29 forced missed tackles lead all NFL players heading into Monday Night Football, and get this: that’s five more than any player has registered in NFL Pro’s statistical database through two weeks of an NFL season since at least 2018. It’s truly wild stuff. Walker is one of only two players in the last decade, along with Justin Jefferson (2023), to hit 150+ scrimmage yards in each of his team’s first two games of a season. He’s the first Kansas City Chiefs player ever to pull that off! And if that wasn’t enough, he also joined legendary Oklahoma and Detroit Lions running back Billy Sims as the only NFL players to ever begin their careers with a team surpassing 175 total yards in the first two games played there. Walker is also the first Chiefs player to rush for 100+ yards in back-to-back games since Clyde Edwards-Helaire did it back in 2021.
This guy is just getting started, and every defense in the league should be scrambling to figure out how to even slow him down. He’s already making a strong case to repeat as Super Bowl MVP, and we can’t wait to see what he does next week.
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Originally reported by Arrowhead Pride.
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