George Karlaftis
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Experience: 4 years
Height: 6-4
Age: 24
Weight: 263 lbs
College: Purdue
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:
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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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 | 16 | 11 | 21 | 14 | 35 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| TOTAL | 49 | 44 | 68 | 46 | 114 | 63 | 24.5 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |