Chris Jones

Experience: 8 years

Height: 6-6

Weight: 310 lbs

College: Mississippi State

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Biography

Eighth-year defensive tackle enters his eighth season with the Chiefs in 2023.
Originally entered the NFL as a second-round pick (37th overall) by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2016 NFL Draft.

Career Highlights:

Led the team in sacks with 15.5 sacks for the fifth-consecutive season in 2022. Jones' 15.5 sacks tied his career-high set in 2018.
Jones has tallied 65.0 career sacks (-457.0 yards), which is the second-most in the NFL amongst DTs since entering the league in 2016. Jones has recorded the fifth-most sacks in franchise history since sacks became an official stat in 1982.
Logged a career-high 15.5 sacks during the 2022 season, leading the Chiefs defense and tying for fourth-most in the NFL.
Established a single-game career-high with 3.5 sacks (-20.0 yards) of Dallas QB Dak Prescott in Week 11 (11/21/21), including sacks on back-to-back plays in the second quarter with a forced fumble on the second of the two sacks. In addition to a single-game career-high, it marked the club's first time having a player record 3.5 or more sacks in a game since OLB Dee Ford recorded 3.5 sacks at Indianapolis on Oct. 30, 2016. It tied for the ninth-best single-game sack performance in team history. For Jones, it marked his 11th-career multi-sack performance and his first multi-sack game since recording 2.0 sacks vs. Cleveland (9/12/21) to open the 2021 season.
In 2018, he recorded at least one sack in 11 consecutive games becoming the first player to do so in NFL history.
Logged a career-high 15.5 sacks during the 2018 season, leading the Chiefs defense and ranking third in the NFL.

Postseason Career Highlights:

Recorded his first postseason sack in the 2022 AFC Championship Game against the Cincinnati Bengals. He sacked Bengals QB Joe Burrow twice.

Honors:

Selected to the Pro Bowl following the 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 seasons.
Named an AP All-Pro following the 2022 (first-team), 2018 (second-team), 2020 (second-team) and 2021 (second-team) seasons.
Received PFWA All-AFC Team honors in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Received TSN All-NFL Team honors in 2020 and 2021.
Was voted by teammates as a defensive team captain prior to the club's 2022 playoff games.
2022 AFC Defensive Player of the Year Award (101 Awards).
2021 Week 11 AFC Defensive Player of the Week.
November 2018 AFC Player of the Month.
2017 Week 2 AFC Defensive Player of the Week.
2016 PFW All-Rookie Team.

Transactions:

Re-signed with Kansas City (7/15/20) ... Originally entered the NFL as a second-round pick (37th overall) by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2016 NFL Draft.

Mitch Holthus and BJ Kissel catch up with Chris Jones after the Chiefs' 37-21 victory over the Cleveland Browns.

WK	OPP	RESULT	TKL	AST	COMBINED	SOLO	SCK	PDEF
2	@Jaguars	W 17 - 9	1	1	2	1	1.5	1
3	Bears	W 41 - 10	1	0	1	1	1	0
4	@Jets	W 23 - 20	2	1	3	2	1	0
5	@Vikings	W 27 - 20	1	1	2	1	1	1
6	Broncos	W 19 - 8	2	2	4	2	1	1
7	Chargers	W 31 - 17	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	@Broncos	L 9 - 24	2	2	4	1	0	0
9	Dolphins	W 21 - 14	0	1	1	0	0	0
11	Eagles	L 17 - 21	5	0	5	5	2	0
12	@Raiders	W 31 - 17	1	1	2	1	0	0
13	@Packers	L 19 - 27	0	0	0	0	0	0

SEASON	TEAM	G	GS	TKL	AST	COMBINED	SOLO	SCK	SFTY	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	LNG	TDS	FF	OPP FR
2016	Kansas City Chiefs	16	11	17	11	28	16	2	0	4						0
2017	Kansas City Chiefs	16	7	22	10	32	19	6.5	0	7	1	-3	-3	-3	0	4
2018	Kansas City Chiefs	16	11	35	5	40	33	15.5	0	5	1	20	20	20	1	2
2019	Kansas City Chiefs	13	12	23	13	36	21	9	0	4						1	1
2020	Kansas City Chiefs	15	14	23	13	36	23	7.5	1	4						2
2021	Kansas City Chiefs	14	14	18	9	27	17	9	0	5						1
2022	Kansas City Chiefs	17	17	30	14	44	23	15.5	0	4						2	1
2023	Kansas City Chiefs	11	11	15	9	24	14	7.5	0	3						0
TOTAL		118	97	183	84	267	166	72.5	1	36	2	17	8.5	20	1	12	2

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