DE · Kansas City Chiefs · #56
George Karlaftis
LDE1- College
- Purdue
- Height
- 6'4"
- Weight
- 263 lb
- Experience
- 5th season
Sacks
1.0▼ 5.0 vs '25
47th of 118 DL
Pressures
18▼ 10 vs '25
3rd of 118 DL
Pressure rate
5.2%▲ 1.5 vs '25
4th of 118 DL
Run stops
10▼ 15 vs '25
50th of 118 DL
Tackling
23 tkl
5 tfl · 15 stops · 0 ff
Ranks compare against the 118 qualifying defensive linemen on the 2026 leaderboard.
Week-by-week
Pressures by game, dashed line = 2025 per-game average
2026 game log
| Usage | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game | ||||||||||||||
| Wk 1 vs DENW | 44 | 86.3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 100.0 | 8.7 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 2 vs INDW | 58 | 89.2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100.0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wk 3 @ MIAW | 58 | 79.5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 100.0 | −5.0 | 1 | 1 |
| Wk 4 @ LVW | 74 | 88.1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 100.0 | 10.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Wk 6 vs LACW | 55 | 80.9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 33.3 | −0.3 | 0 | 2 |
| Wk 7 @ SEAL | 57 | 82.6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Season | 346 | 84.4 | 23 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1.0 | 15 | 18 | 11 | 72.7 | 3.5 | 1 | 5 |
How he compares
2026 defensive linemen who qualify · dashed lines mark the group average
Contract
signed 2025 with Chiefs
$88Mover 4 years
- Avg. per year
- $22M
- Guaranteed
- $32M 36%
- 2026 cap hit
- $7.4M 2.5% of the cap
- Signed
- 2025
- Runs through
- 2028
2025
2026 · now
2027
2028
Year 2 of 4 ·
Career by season
| Overall | Tackling | Pass rush | Coverage | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 6 | 346 | 84.4 | 23 | 15 | 5 | 7.7 | 1.0 | 15 | 18 | 11 | 39.2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 16 | 762 | 77.9 | 46 | 35 | 10 | 6.7 | 6.0 | 23 | 28 | 3 | 81.3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 16 | 831 | 82.5 | 32 | 25 | 9 | 2.8 | 8.0 | 28 | 34 | 8 | 63.0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 16 | 755 | 75.0 | 46 | 35 | 7 | 8.0 | 10.5 | 17 | 35 | 6 | 94.4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 17 | 730 | 63.5 | 32 | 26 | 7 | 11.4 | 6.0 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 119.4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 71 | 3,424 | 75.2 | 179 | 136 | 38 | 7.3 | 31.5 | 94 | 136 | 34 | 76.1 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 0 |