5. The Chiefs’ eight sacks on Saturday marked the second-most in franchise postseason history.<\/p>\n
Kansas City racked up eight sacks on Saturday, which trails only the Chiefs’ nine sacks against the Houston Oilers in the 1993-94 postseason for the most in franchise history. In fact, the Chiefs are one of only 11 teams in league history to record at least eight sacks in a playoff game.<\/p>\n
That total was a group effort, too, as six different players recorded a sack on Saturday: defensive end George Karlaftis (3), safety Chamarri Conner (1), defensive end Charles Omenihu (1), defensive tackle Chris Jones (1), defensive end Felix Anudike-Uzomah (1) and defensive tackle Tershawn Wharton (1).<\/p>\n
Additionally, four of those eight sacks took place on either third or fourth down.<\/p>\n
As a whole, the Chiefs pressured Texans’ quarterback C.J. Stroud on 54% of his dropbacks on Saturday.<\/p>\n
6. George Karlaftis, specifically, had a night to remember.<\/p>\n
Karlaftis joined Frank Clark as just the second player in franchise history to record three or more sacks in a single postseason game on Saturday (since sacks became an official statistic in 1982). He’s also the first player to do so among all players since the Tennessee Titans’ Jeffery Simmons tallied three sacks against the Bengals in the 2021-22 Divisional Round.<\/p>\n
The three-year veteran also matched a career-best with eight pressures in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5. The Chiefs’ eight sacks on Saturday marked the second-most in franchise postseason history. Kansas City racked up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[501,346,7,497,221,253,2368,118,110,6,498,499,505,503,502,504,222,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-202666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-andy-reid","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-geha-field-at-arrowhead-stadium","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-texans","14":"tag-houstontexans","15":"tag-kansas-city","16":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-football","19":"tag-patrick-mahomes","20":"tag-super-bowl","21":"tag-super-bowl-iv","22":"tag-super-bowl-liv","23":"tag-super-bowl-lvii","24":"tag-texans","25":"tag-travis-kelce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114843093776324871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202666","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=202666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}