George Karlaftis
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Experience: 4 years
Height: 6-4
Age: 24
Weight: 263 lbs
College: Purdue
2025 SEASON
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SCK1
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FF0
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Preseason
| WK | Game Date | OPP | RESULT | Total | Solo | AST | SCK | SFTY | PDEF | INT | YDS | AVG | LNG | TDS | FF | FR |
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| 3 | 08/22/2025 | Bears | L 27 - 29 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 2 | 08/15/2025 | @Seahawks | L 16 - 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 1 | 08/09/2025 | @Cardinals | L 17 - 20 |
Regular Season
| WK | Game Date | OPP | RESULT | Total | Solo | AST | SCK | SFTY | PDEF | INT | YDS | AVG | LNG | TDS | FF | FR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 09/14/2025 | Eagles | L 17 - 20 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 1 | 09/05/2025 | @Chargers | L 21 - 27 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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.