{"id":7592,"date":"2025-04-28T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/7592\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:03:15","slug":"five-things-to-know-about-chiefs-third-round-pick-de-ashton-gillotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/7592\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things to Know About Chiefs Third-Round Pick DE Ashton Gillotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Chiefs added to their pass-rush on Friday night by selecting Louisville edge-rusher Ashton Gillotte with the No. 66 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more on the Chiefs&#8217; newest edge-rusher.<\/p>\n<p>1. Gillotte recorded some big-time production during his career at Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3, 264-pound Gillotte racked up 39.5 tackles-for-loss and 25.5 sacks in 50 career games for the Cardinals, ranking in the top six in school history in each catetogry.<\/p>\n<p>His top statistical season took place in 2023, when he tallied 14.5 tackles-for-loss, three forced fumbles and led the ACC with 11 sacks. In terms of &#8220;pressures created,&#8221; however, Gillotte was actually more productive in 2024 (60 pressures created) than in 2023 (58 pressures created).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Senior Director of Player Personnel Mike Bradway lauded Gillotte&#8217;s motor on Friday night:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This kid plays 100 miles-per-hour,&#8221; Bradway said. &#8220;He&#8217;s everything you want in a football player.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs added to their pass-rush on Friday night by selecting Louisville edge-rusher Ashton Gillotte with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7593,"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-7592","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":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114416910936997837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592","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=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}