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We have a lot of questions when it comes to the Seahawks off season,

not just about how they might use those four draft picks. But look, the number one question they're going to be facing from themselves in the rest of the league all year long, which is how they get back to a Super Bowl. We're going to be joined now by ESPN's Ben Solac on the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook hotline. Ben, you were a massive fan of Ken Walker. You said as much ahead of the Super Bowl.

We talked to you on Radio Row called it. I mean, he ended up being Super Bowl MVP.

What's Seattle losing with him signing with Kansas City and what do they now have to find?

So fundamentally, you're losing explosive plays in the running game, right? Walker's biggest

strength even when he was splitting time with Charbonnet and he hadn't really broken out yet,

was the fact that he could take a three-yard loss and turn it into a 10-yard gain, right?

I mean, his tackle-breaking ability in the short area, getting around the corner,

creating yards of contact is really quite special in the league.

And so you're definitely losing the explosive aspect. And the

path that Seattle probably wants to take is finding an explosive runner to go besides Zach Charbonne

and kind of return to that handcuff approach. Now, I would argue that over the back half of that

Super Bowl run and then into the postseason, you'll lose even more than that in terms of some of

the receiving play and his ability to catch these screens and turn those into 20, 30-yard gains. You obviously started running at a higher volume and he was becoming more consistent and kind of becoming that chip away runner who is consistently getting out five or six yards. And so you know for sure you're losing explosiveness. But when it comes specifically to that postseason run, I mean, you're losing a three-down star and running back right there.

And that's not the sort of thing that you can replace as easily in the aggregate as we might like.

When it comes to total value of this contract and then average salary, Ken Walker is like the third or fourth highest paid R.B.

Do you feel like the chief's overpaid or do you feel like that feels about right?

Yeah, I mean, they pay the free agency price. You know, is Tyler Linderbaum worth $27 million?

Probably not, but the Raiders got a lot of money and it's free agency. You know,

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