Kansas City Chiefs DE George Karlaftis is labeled as a promising building block

Bleacher Report recently selected Kansas City Chiefs DE George Karlaftis as the team’s most promising building block going into the 2025 season.

“After a 10.5-sack campaign in 2023, Karlaftis saw a slight drop-off in sack total with eight in the previous year,” wrote Moe Morton, “but he maintained an active presence in the pass rush, logging a career-high 37 pressures, Karlaftis isn’t generating the same amount of buzz as fellow 2022 first-rounders Travon Walker and Aidan Hutchinson in terms of extension talks. That said, he’s taken some attention away from Jones as an effective three-down defender who can get to the quarterback and stop runs behind the line of scrimmage.”

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Karlaftis and the other 31 players selected fit the same criteria. Each player hasn’t made an All-Pro or Pro Bowl team, and they’re all on rookie deals.

The former Purdue standout led the Chiefs with eight sacks and 61 pressures last season. Since his first season in 2022, Katlaftis has had 32.5 sacks, including the postseason, and 208 pressures.

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