Chris Jones

Kansas City Chiefs

Pos IDL

Updated October 8, 2026

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Model Score

96.0 MODEL

2018

91.7

2019

91.7

2020

86.7

2021

87.7

2022

94.2

2023

89.8

2024

89.8

2025

94.2

2026

96.0

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

Five Pro Bowls plus three 1st-team All-Pros plus three Super Bowl rings plus five straight tier 1 STTM finishes (all in the top 7) puts Jones in the rarified Hall-of-Fame conversation as the best interior defender of his generation. The Mississippi State pedigree plus the 2nd-round draft slot plus the Kansas City dynasty anchor role gives him one of the most outlier-positive career arcs at the position. The 2026 question is whether Jones wins his first DPOY or whether the broader voting catches up to the multi-year STTM tier 1 dominance.

Jones came out of Mississippi State as the Kansas City Chiefs' 2nd-round pick (37th overall) in 2016 and has made five Pro Bowls (2018, 2020-2023) plus three 1st-team All-Pros (2018, 2022, 2023). He has won three Super Bowls (LIV, LVII, LVIII) anchoring the Chiefs dynasty. His STTM career runs tier 1 (#7) in 2021, tier 1 (#2) in 2022, tier 1 (#5) in 2023, tier 1 (#2) in 2024, and tier 1 (#2) in 2025.

Strengths

Five Pro Bowls plus three 1st-team All-Pros plus three Super Bowl rings plus five straight tier 1 STTM finishes establishes a Hall-of-Fame interior defender résumé.
Five straight years inside the top 7 of STTM IDL rankings confirms the elite ceiling is structural across multiple seasons and surrounding contexts.

Concerns

No DPOY yet despite the multi-year tier 1 dominance flags a gap between STTM dominance and the top broader voting prize.
Age 31 plus 10 years of interior-line wear plus the dynasty workload puts the late-career structural decline question on every 2027 and beyond projection.

What to watch: Whether Jones wins his first DPOY in 2026 plus holds tier 1 (top 5), the threshold for closing the Hall-of-Fame résumé case with the top broader voting prize.