Chris Jones

• Jones enters his 10th season with the Chiefs in 2025.
• Originally entered the NFL as a second-round pick (37th overall) by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2016 NFL Draft.

Career Highlights:

• Tied with DE George Karlaftis to lead the defense in sacks for sixth-consecutive season with 10.5 sacks (-71.5 yards). Led the team in sacks with 15.5 sacks (-105.5 yards) in 2022, tying his career-high set in 2018. Recorded double-digit sacks in back-to-back seasons (15.5, 2022; 10.5, 2023). It was his third season with double-digit sacks (2023, 2022 and 2018).
• Jones and Karlaftis led the defense to 57.0 sacks in 2023, the second-most sacks by a defensive unit in Chiefs history.
• Jones has tallied 75.5 career sacks (-528.5 yards), which is the second-most in the NFL amongst DTs since entering the league in 2016 and the eighth-most amongst all defenders since 2016.
• Jones' 75.5 sacks are the fifth-most sacks in franchise history since sacks became an official stat in 1982. His 528.5 sack yards are the third-most in franchise history.
• 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 11^th-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:

• Is one of six players to have been on the active roster for all three of the club's Super Bowl victories over the past five years (LIV, LVII and LVIII). He is joined by G Nick Allegretti, K Harrison Butker, TE Travis Kelce, QB Patrick Mahomes and LS James Winchester.
• Helped propel the Chiefs to their third Super Bowl title in five years (LV, LVII and LVIII) with six quarterback pressures, two passes defensed and .5 sacks in the 2023 postseason.
• 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, 2022, 2023 and 2024 seasons.
• Named an AP All-Pro following the 2024 (first-team), 2023 (first-team), 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 PFW/PFWA All-NFL Team honors following the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
• 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 and 2023 playoff campaigns.
• 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 the Chiefs (3/10/24) ... Re-signed with the Chiefs (9/12/23) ... Re-signed with the Chiefs (7/15/20) ... Originally entered the NFL as a second-round pick (37th overall) by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2016 NFL Draft.