Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker misses Seahawks' ring ceremony after signing $45M deal with Chiefs

The Seattle Seahawks received their Super Bowl rings connected Thursday night, but 1 idiosyncratic from the squad was notably absent: the game's Most Valuable Player.

Kenneth Walker earned Super Bowl LX honors successful Santa Clara aft helium had 27 carries for 135 yards, making him by acold the champion violative subordinate connected the field.

Walker had nary prime but to beryllium the doorbell cattle for the Seahawks aft Zach Charbonnet tore his ACL successful the NFC Championship crippled 2 weeks prior.

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Seattle Seahawks moving backmost Kenneth Walker III runs against the New England Patriots during Super Bowl LX astatine Levi's Stadium connected Feb. 8, 2026. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

But determination was a terms to wage for the Seahawks, arsenic Walker signed a three-year, $45 cardinal woody with the Kansas City Chiefs a period later.

Walker was the lone subordinate of the championship-winning squad to not beryllium successful attendance, but it should beryllium noted that the Chiefs' mandatory minicamp inactive took spot connected Thursday.

By the 2nd quarter, Walker had already joined Timmy Smith and Marcus Allen with aggregate 25-yard runs successful a Super Bowl.

Kenneth Walker of the Kansas City Chiefs participates during mandatory minicamp astatine the University of Kansas Hospital Arrowhead Training Complex successful Kansas City, Missouri, connected June 9, 2026. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

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Walker was incapable to find the extremity portion — successful fact, Seattle’s lone violative touchdown came from A.J. Barner. However, Walker’s dominance connected the crushed helped get Seattle into scoring position. Jason Myers went 5-for-5 connected his field-goal attempts aft Walker’s ground-and-pound effort.

Walker’s 135 yards connected the crushed are tied for the eighth-most successful Super Bowl past and the 2nd astir helium has ever had successful a game, including playoffs.

Walker’s rushing prop had been hovering astir 70 yards, which helium surpassed successful the archetypal half.

The Seahawks won the game, 29-13, implicit the New England Patriots for their 2nd Lombardi Trophy.

Seattle Seahawks caput manager Mike Macdonald and moving backmost Kenneth Walker III observe with the Vince Lombardi trophy aft defeating the New England Patriots successful Super Bowl LX astatine Levi's Stadium connected Feb. 8, 2026. (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

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Ring highlights see 50 achromatic diamonds astir the logo successful grant of the team's 50th season, a portion of a crippled shot wrong the ring, a removable topper that tin beryllium utilized arsenic a concatenation pendant and overmuch more.

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