Creed Humphrey
Kansas City ChiefsModel Score
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 →
Season Stats · 17 games
Draft & College
He went about where consensus had him.
Comps
STM Take
Three Super Bowl rings plus three straight Pro Bowls plus the 2024 1st-team All-Pro plus a tier 1 STTM peak (#1) puts Humphrey in the conversation as the best center in football, full stop. The career arc has been remarkably stable inside the tier 1-2 band other than the 2022 tier 4 (#30) dip. The 2026 question is whether Humphrey extends the tier 1 run into a four-straight-Pro Bowl chapter or whether the structural workload of anchoring the Chiefs dynasty creates wear.
Humphrey came out of Oklahoma as the Kansas City Chiefs' 2nd-round pick (63rd overall) in 2021 after winning the 2020 Rimington Trophy as the nation's top center. He has anchored Patrick Mahomes's interior protection through three Super Bowl wins (LVII, LVIII), making three straight Pro Bowls (2022-2024) and 1st-team All-Pro in 2024. His STTM career runs tier 1 (#2) rookie season, tier 4 (#30) in 2022, tier 2 (#14) in 2023, tier 1 (#1) peak in 2024, and tier 1 (#3) in 2025.
Strengths
- Three Super Bowl rings (LVII, LVIII) plus three straight Pro Bowls (2022-2024) plus 2024 1st-team All-Pro establishes the highest peak résumé of any center under age 28.
- Tier 1 (#1) peak in 2024 plus tier 1 (#3) in 2025 confirms the elite ceiling has been sustained, not a one-year spike.
Concerns
- 2022 tier 4 (#30) dip in the middle of the career arc shows the ceiling can compress under heavier interior pressure rates.
- Sustained workload of anchoring the Chiefs' three-Super-Bowl run at age 26 raises the structural-wear question late career.
What to watch: Whether Humphrey wins a second 1st-team All-Pro in 2026, the threshold that would lock in the best-center-in-football claim for the late-2020s.