{"id":97941,"date":"2025-06-02T12:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/97941\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:02:18","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-chris-jones-ranks-as-pffs-top-interior-defender-going-into-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/97941\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs&#8217; Chris Jones ranks as PFF&#8217;s top interior defender going into 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro Football Focus recently ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> star Chris Jones as the NFL&#8217;s top interior defender. The veteran lineman continues to change the game with his exceptional ability to rush the quarterback and draw attention, allowing teammates to make plays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What more is there to say about Chris Jones? The future first-ballot Hall of Famer was once again the highest-graded interior defender in the NFL in 2024 (90.2),&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-interior-defender-rankings-top-32-ahead-of-2025-nfl-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wrote Trevor Sikkema;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">wrote Trevor Sikkema<\/a>, &#8220;That makes it 88.0-plus marks in seven of his nine NFL seasons. His 1.69 PFF WAR over the past three years is by far the most among interior defenders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Pro Football Focus noticed Kansas City&#8217;s dominant defensive line in the 2024 AFC Championship and awarded star Jones a grade of 90.6. Jones led all Chiefs players in the team&#8217;s victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Jones earned his third consecutive first-team All-Pro selection and sixth straight Pro Bowl invitation. He finished the 2024 regular season with five sacks and 37 tackles in 15 games.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiefswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/chiefs\/2025\/06\/02\/kansas-city-chiefs-chris-jones-ranks-as-pffs-top-interior-defender-for-2025\/83957629007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chiefs&#039; Chris Jones ranks as PFF&#039;s top interior defender for 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chiefs&#8217; Chris Jones ranks as PFF&#8217;s top interior defender for 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro Football Focus recently ranked Kansas City Chiefs star Chris Jones as the NFL&#8217;s top interior defender. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2063],"tags":[53,346,2025,7,118,110,2438,2437,6,410,25520,9096],"class_list":{"0":"post-97941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-chris-jones","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-pro-football-focus","18":"tag-star-jones","19":"tag-trevor-sikkema"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114613671967513534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97941","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=97941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}