Chris Jones

• 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.