Hour 1: What would the Seahawks offense look like without Ken Walker?
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Bump and Stacy look at what’s next for Ken Walker after the Seahawks declined to franchise tag him, they discuss what the Seahawks offense would look like without him, they give you their thoughts on Cal Raleigh’s role in the World Baseball Classic and Jake Bobo’s future with the Seahawks in Headline Rewrites, and they break down what's giving them confidence in the Mariners’ 2026 season.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio. |
| 0:02.9 | This is Bump and Stacey on Seattle Sports. |
| 0:06.6 | Streaming through the Seattle Sports app and at SeattleSports.com. |
| 0:11.1 | Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross. |
| 0:15.1 | The NFL's franchise tag deadline is today, and the Seahawks are not using it. |
| 0:21.3 | So that means that Ken Walker is going to become a free agent, that report from ESPN's Adam Schaefter, and could become just the fourth player ever to win Super Bowl MVP and start the following year with a new team. |
| 0:33.8 | It's not guaranteed that he goes to another team, obviously, but Bump, you've been talking about it for a while. It's feeling increasingly likely that we will not see Ken Walker with the |
| 0:40.9 | Seahawks in 2026. No, I mean them not franchise tagging him doesn't mean they're not trying to work |
| 0:46.8 | on something. The franchise tag just holds him, say, stay put for a second. Let us try to figure |
| 0:51.0 | something out. If not, then we'll just, we'll play on this tag here. |
| 0:56.0 | No, they can still be talking, but you're right, it does kind of push you towards the direction of believing that, you know, he's probably not going to be on this squad because what is he going to ask for? He's going to ask 10, 11, 12, something around there. And he should ask for that, man. Super Bowl MVP was arguably one of the best running backs the last month of the season. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, this is just the cost of doing business. So no, I'm still on the boat of he's not going to be here. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah. Thank you, Ken Walker, for giving the Seahawks your very best performance over 300 yards in three games when they needed it most. That also means that you can push for a number that is too hard to stomach for them. |
| 1:29.8 | That could even be greater than the $14 million on the tag. |
| 1:32.6 | This from Jill Corey. |
| 1:33.7 | Seattle's got a ton of cap for him. |
| 1:35.3 | So if they wanted to to make sure he doesn't go anywhere, they could stick a franchise tag on him, |
| 1:41.6 | but that's going to be more to $14 million. |
| 1:45.7 | He might be looking for that more than that anyway as a target. Getting it is maybe a different story, but really you |
| 1:52.2 | got one guy in the division that's a cop in Kyron Williams signed for 33 million over three years, |
| 2:00.7 | 11 million per year last preseason. |
| 2:03.6 | They didn't. They did not use that franchise tag. I know that some fans were calling for it, |
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