George Karlaftis
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Experience: 5 years
Height: 6-4
Age: 25
Weight: 263 lbs
College: Purdue
2025 SEASON
- Solo23
- SCK6
- FF0
- INT--
Defense
| YEAR | TEAM | G | Total | Solo | AST | SCK | SFTY | PDEF | INT | TDS | YDS | AVG | LNG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 46 | 23 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 2 | |||||
| 2024 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 32 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 5 | |||||
| 2023 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 45 | 28 | 17 | 10.5 | 0 | 3 | |||||
| 2022 | Kansas City Chiefs | 17 | 32 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| TOTAL | 65 | 155 | 86 | 69 | 30.5 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fumbles
| YEAR | TEAM | G | FUM | LOST | FF | OWN FR | OPP FR | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2024 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 0 | |||||
| 2023 | Kansas City Chiefs | 16 | 1 | |||||
| 2022 | Kansas City Chiefs | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| TOTAL | 65 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Biography
- Karlaftis enters his fourth season with the Chiefs in 2025.
- 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:
- Led Kansas City in sacks (8.0) in 2024.
- 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 joined 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:
Re-signed with Kansas City (7/21/25) ... Originally entered the NFL as the second of two first-round picks (30th overall) by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2022 NFL Draft.