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In a mixed season full of ups and downs, only two Kansas City Chiefs earned First-team All-Pro recognition in the NFL this season.
Despite some outstanding defensive showings from Steve Spagnuolo‘s group, only one player made the First-team cut.
On the opposite side only one offensive Chiefs player made the First-team, while both Chief players selected are familiar faces.
Here’s a look at the lucky two and their 2023 seasons.
Double Trouble
On the defensive side, Chris Jones got the nod for the First-team, registering 10.5 sacks in 2023.
Jones sat out of the opening game this season before signing a one-year deal.
Although his sack totals were a little less than his previous campaign (15.5), Jones still wound up second in the NFL regarding pressures among interior linemen (75).
Jones had 10 fewer tackles in 2023 than the previous year (30), though he had a career-high seven stuffs.
It’s his second successive All-Pro selection and fifth on either the first or second team.
The other person on that list is none other than Travis Kelce.
Like Jones, Kelce’s numbers weren’t as spectacular in 2023, with the Chiefs tight end seeing his seven-season run of 1,000+ receiving yards end.
Nonetheless, Kelce still led the Chiefs in receiving yards (984) and receptions (93) while scoring five touchdowns.
Kelce’s 1,000 receiving yards streak is no more, but his All-Pro streak remains intact, with the 34-year-old making either the first or second team now on eight successive occasions.
Seconds Please
We are still awaiting the Second-team All-Pro selections, but at least one Chie should make the list, if not more.
Surprisingly, L’Jarius Sneed is just a Pro Bowl reserve, but while voters didn’t deem him worthy of the First-team he has a strong case to be on team #2.
DaRon Bland and Patrick Surtain got the First-team spots at cornerback over Sneed.
Another two spots are available among Second-team cornerbacks, and Sneed never getting beat for a touchdown on 81 targets this season, while forcing 17 incompletions against some of the best receivers is surely All-Pro worthy.
A spot on the Second-team All-Pro kicking roster is open, and Harrison Butker is more than deserving.
His 94.3 field goal percentage was the highest in the AFC, but Justin Tucker got the nod over him in the Pro Bowl voting, and I fear that’ll also be the case in this selection process since Dallas’ Brandon Aubrey got the First-team spot.
Sneed and Butker are the two most deserving Chiefs for the Second-team, though a few others could make it too.
This wasn’t the best season for Patrick Mahomes, but recency bias, his Pro Bowl selection, and his career-high competition percentage in 2023 (67.2) might be enough to get him on the Second-team.
Trent McDuffie has an outside shot with 80 tackles, three sacks and seven passes defended, as do linemen Joe Thuney and Creed Humphrey, with the latter leading the league in pass-blocking snaps (726).
Willie Gay and Nick Bolton were Pro Bowl alternates with 58 and 60 tackles, respectively, while Isiah Pacheco averaged nearly five yards per carry (4.6).
Trey Smith is also in with a fighting chance, though based on the Pro Bowl voting, I’d be surprised if more than two Chiefs were on the Second-team All-Pro squad.