Kenneth Walker Iii Joins Seahawks Legend With Historic Three-touchdown Game

The divisional information crippled betwixt nan Seahawks and 49ers surely wasn’t nan astir breathtaking of Saturday’s 2 playoff contests pinch nan Broncos defeating nan Bills successful overtime conscionable earlier kickoff astatine Lumen Field successful Seattle.

The Seahawks, nan NFC’s apical seed, dominated from commencement to decorativeness pinch receiver Rashid Shaheed returning nan opening kickoff 95 yards for an contiguous score. Seattle stomped San Francisco 41-6 to beforehand to adjacent week’s NFC title game, wherever it will get to play big erstwhile more. Seahawks moving backmost Kenneth Walker III was nan prima of nan night, rushing for 116 yards and 3 touchdowns connected 19 carries.

With his monster game, Walker joined franchise fable Shaun Alexander arsenic nan only Seahawks to people 3 aliases much rushing touchdowns successful playoff crippled successful franchise history. Alexander accomplished nan feat backmost successful 2004 erstwhile he rushed for 3 scores pinch conscionable 45 yards successful a 33-27 overtime nonaccomplishment to nan Packers successful nan wild-card round.

Walker’s large time helped nan Seahawks scope nan NFC title crippled for nan first clip since ‘14 erstwhile they went onto nan Super Bowl aft winning nan full point a twelvemonth before. Following Saturday’s game, nan fourth-year moving backmost gave each nan in installments to nan large men successful front.

“I conscionable sewage to springiness nan in installments to nan O-line,” he said to reporters postgame. “They had nan holes location and each I had to do was deed it.”

Despite backmost Sam Darnold’s questionable position entering nan game owed to an oblique injury, Seattle continued to rotation aft winning its last 7 games of nan regular season. The Seahawks move connected to play nan victor of Sunday’s crippled betwixt nan Bears and Rams pinch a travel to nan Super Bowl connected nan line.

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