4. Tillery originally entered the NFL as a first-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
The Chargers selected Tillery with the No. 28 overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, making him the sixth defensive tackle selected that year.<\/p>\n
Heading into the draft, The Athletic’s Dane Brugler had Tillery as the No. 5 defensive tackle in the 2019 class (and his No. 32 overall player). He’s now the sixth former first-round pick on the Chiefs’ roster, and one of two (joining wide receiver Hollywood Brown) that wasn’t originally drafted by Kansas City.<\/p>\n
5. He played his college ball at Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
Tillery compiled a terrific collegiate career as a four-year contributor at Notre Dame from 2015 through 2018, tallying 135 tackles, 24.5 tackles-for-loss, 13.5 sacks and four forced fumbles across 50 appearances (and 40 starts).<\/p>\n
He was particularly productive during his final two years in school, as he recorded at least nine tackles-for-loss and four sacks in each campaign. His senior season, specifically, included a team-best eight sacks.<\/p>\n
Tillery’s talents caught the attention of the Chargers, and now all these years later, he’s headed back to the AFC West as a member of the Chiefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4. Tillery originally entered the NFL as a first-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. The Chargers selected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[501,346,7,497,118,110,2438,2437,6,498,499,505,503,502,504,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-14825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-andy-reid","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-geha-field-at-arrowhead-stadium","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-football","18":"tag-patrick-mahomes","19":"tag-super-bowl","20":"tag-super-bowl-iv","21":"tag-super-bowl-liv","22":"tag-super-bowl-lvii","23":"tag-travis-kelce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}