Kansas City Chiefs Make Huge Chris Jones Announcement

Chris Jones moved into second place on the Kansas City Chiefs’ all-time sack list during the team’s 35-12 victory over the New York Jets in Week 9.

The Chiefs made the announcement on social media.

The defensive tackle entered the game with only half a sack on the season, a quiet start that had drawn attention after years of consistent production from the interior.

Against the Jets, he recorded two sacks, the second of which pushed his career total past Tamba Hali and left him at 90.

Hali, a franchise Hall of Famer inducted in 2024 after a 12-year career in Kansas City, finished with 89.5 sacks.

Jones, now in his 11th season, has spent his entire professional career with the Chiefs after being drafted in the second round out of Mississippi State in 2016.

The two overlapped for a brief period early in Jones’s career, and Jones has previously spoken about learning from Hali and Justin Houston as a young player.

After the game Jones credited the people around him rather than treating the milestone as an individual achievement.

“It’s a testament to all my teammates,” he said. “One person gets the credit, but it takes a village of unselfish teammates for me to be successful. Especially getting to 90 sacks, it’s not an easy task. Super grateful for my teammates on this journey that I’ve had in order to even get close to that.”

The performance also lifted the entire defensive line. Kansas City finished with five sacks, a season high after managing just nine in the first eight games.

George Karlaftis matched Jones with two sacks and continues to lead the team with four on the year, while second-year edge rusher Ashton Gillotte added one.

The unit’s earlier struggles had stood out against an otherwise solid defense; holding the Jets to 229 total yards and no touchdowns offered a clearer picture of what the group can do when the pass rush arrives.

Jones still trails Derrick Thomas’s franchise record of 126.5 sacks by a wide margin, and reaching that mark would require several more productive seasons.

For now the immediate focus is sustaining the pressure that finally surfaced in Week 9.

The Chiefs, who improved to 6-2, travel next to face an Atlanta Falcons offense built around explosive skill players.

A repeat of the collective effort shown against the Jets would give Kansas City one of its stronger defensive showings of the season and keep Jones climbing the list he has spent more than a decade building.