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George Karlaftis is determined to make it back to another Super BowlCredit: Getty 2<\/p>\n The pass rusher signed a four-year deal worth $93 millionCredit: AP<\/p>\n The defensive end has been with the team ever since they drafted him in the first round in 2022.<\/p>\n He has been a key part of their Super Bowl<\/a> successes.<\/p>\n But Karlaftis also experienced last year’s nightmare defeat in New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/p>\n And he’s determined to help the Chiefs get back on top of the NFL <\/a>mountain.<\/p>\n “Chiefs Kingdom, I just signed,” Karlaftis said in a short video on the Chiefs page.<\/p>\n “Super excited to be back.<\/p>\n “Getting ready to get after it and hopefully win another Super Bowl. Go Chiefs.”<\/p>\n The Chiefs reported back for training camp this week.<\/p>\n They are determined to make a run at a fourth straight Super Bowl appearance.<\/p>\n Last year ended in a 40-22 defeat by the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/a><\/p>\n Is this Travis Kelce’s final season?<\/p>\n Karlaftis was part of that experience.<\/p>\n But he’s also a two-time Super Bowl champion having starred in their previous victories.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old has 31.5 career sacks in three seasons.<\/p>\n He was born in Athens, Greece, but attended West Lafayette High School in Indiana.<\/p>\n Karlaftis also played for Purdue in college.<\/p>\n NFL WEEK 1 SCHEDULE<\/p>\n (All times ET)<\/p>\n Thur 4 Sept Fri 5 Sept Sun 7 Sept Mon 8 Sept He declared for the NFL Draft in 2022 and was picked up by the Chiefs.<\/p>\n Kansas City’s first game of the 2025 season is against the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/a><\/p>\n That game takes place in Brazil on Friday, September 5.<\/p>\n The week 1 clash is scheduled for the night after the season opener.<\/p>\n Kansas City’s conquerors the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> will host the Dallas Cowboys <\/a>on Thursday, September 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS City Chiefs star George Karlaftis signed a mega new contract – and then sent a rallying cry.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6,578,505],"class_list":{"0":"post-226865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascitychiefs","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-section-sportamerican-football","16":"tag-super-bowl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114896544009880683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226865","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=226865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kansas](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/kansas-city-chiefs-defensive-end-1011300454.jpg\")
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