Kenneth Walker 2025 Season in Review

Kenneth Walker finished 2025 as the number 22 running back in total PPR scoring and the number 29 running back in PPR per game. That gap between total and per-game tells you exactly what this year was — a full 17-game workload that quietly accumulated production, but rarely a week where Walker actually won you the matchup. He moved from Seattle to Kansas City and landed as the lead back on a 6-and-11 team that missed the playoffs, splitting carries with Kareem Hunt in a backfield where Hunt vultured the goal line. Walker stayed available all year. That's its own kind of value — but the ceiling weeks were rare and the floor was leaky.

Now let's dig into the numbers. Walker carried it 221 times for 1,027 yards — a clean four-point-six-five per carry — and added 31 catches for 282 yards on 36 targets, with an 8 percent average target share. The efficiency story is the interesting one: rushing yards over expected of plus 38.9 on the season, plus 0.18 per attempt, against 8-or-more defenders in the box on 27.6 percent of his carries. He was creating yards the blocking didn't give him. The problem was the touchdowns — just 5 rushing scores and zero through the air, while Kareem Hunt punched in 8 rushing touchdowns on 58 fewer carries. That's why Walker averaged just 11.3 PPR per game, and the week-to-week ride was true boom-or-bust. He cleared 17 PPR five times, including a 25.4 explosion against the Titans and a 20.1 against Denver, but he also dropped below 7 PPR in six different weeks, including a 2.9 dud against the Chargers in Week 15 and a 3.8 against Houston. No reliable floor.

The defining shape of Walker's fantasy year wasn't one play — it was the touchdown math. He out-carried Hunt 221 to 163 and out-gained him 1,027 to 611, but Hunt scored 8 rushing touchdowns to Walker's 5. That single split is the difference between a back-end starter and a true weekly weapon. Walker did the hard work. Somebody else cashed the checks.