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After years of declining returns from the team's running backs, the Chiefs' ground game finally bottomed out last season. Kansas City only had a perfunctory presence operating from under center, with the team's intentions largely telegraphed. And with a league-low three carries of 20-plus yards on the season, and only one coming from a running back, Mahomes was left to shoulder an even more disproportionate burden as both a runner and overall offensive catalyst.
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Walker III transformative for Chiefs' league-low run game explosiveness

Walker's addition to the Chiefs is positioned to transform the ground game after Kansas City had only three carries of 20-plus yards last season (league-low); at 25 years old with never more than 228 carries in a season, Walker can assume a larger role while maintaining his breakaway speed that powered Seattle's Super Bowl 60 attack.

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