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George-Karlaftis

George Karlaftis

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#56

Experience: 3 years

Height: 6-4

Age: 23

Weight: 263 lbs

College: Purdue

2024 SEASON

  • Solo
    4
  • SCK
    1
  • FF
    0
  • INT
    --
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Biography

  • Karlaftis enters his third season with the Chiefs in 2024.
  • Originally entered the NFL as the second of two first-round picks (30th overall) by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2022 NFL Draft.

Career Highlights:

  • Recorded double-digit sacks (10.5) in 2023, tying with DT Chris Jones for the most amongst the defense.
  • Totaled 16.5 sacks in his first two seasons, the third-most in a Chiefs player's first two seasons.
  • In 2022, George Karlaftis became the 19th player in franchise history to start all regular season games in their rookie season. Karlaftis joins C Creed Humphrey and G Trey Smith to be the first three to start 17 games in their rookie season since the NFL added a 17th regular season game in the 2021 season.
  • As a rookie, finished the 2022 season with the second-most sacks on the team (6.0) behind DT Chris Jones (15.5).

Transactions:

  • Originally entered the NFL as the second of two first-round picks (30th overall) by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2022 NFL Draft.

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Recent Games

WK OPP RESULT TKL AST COMBINED SOLO SCK SFTY PDEF INT YDS AVG LNG TDS FF OPP FR
1 Ravens W 27 - 20 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0
2 Bengals W 26 - 25 2 1 3 1 1 0 0 0
3 @Falcons W 22 - 17 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
4 @Chargers W 17 - 10 2 1 3 2 0 0 0 0
5 Saints W 26 - 13 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

Career Stats

Defense Career

SEASON TEAM G GS TKL AST COMBINED SOLO SCK SFTY PDEF INT YDS AVG LNG TDS FF OPP FR
2022 Kansas City Chiefs 17 17 18 15 33 17 6 0 7 0 2
2023 Kansas City Chiefs 16 16 29 17 46 28 10.5 0 3 1
2024 Kansas City Chiefs 5 5 6 5 11 4 1 0 0 0
TOTAL 38 38 53 37 90 49 17.5 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
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