This narrative is overblown.

He had 7.5 sacks as a Freshman.

He had 2 in 2 games as a Sophomore.

In year 3 he only had 4.5 while being double and triple teamed often.

That entire narrative is based on year 3.
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By his senior year every team was double- and sometimes even triple-teaming him because he was the only pass-rushing threat on that team. and he still got 4 sacks and I think he led the team i pressures or hits or whatever.


Again, not saying he's Reggie White, there's a reason he wasn't drafted in the top 15. But there's the reason he didn't pile up sacks in his last year in college. he would've had to be elite to beat double-teams consistently, and then it follows he would've been drafted in the top 15, not at 30.
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He's a rookie playing next to Nnada, and receiving pass rushing pointers from Frank Clark.

The Chiefs are lucky this guy can put his fucking uniform on correctly.
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Precisely. Thats why its worrisome. For some reason when he gets near the QB..the struggles start.
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:-)
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I watched almost every game of his college career. I'm a B1G junkie.

Even against the Hawkeyes vaunted line last year, he was a game wrecker.

Teams started tripling him because he was, quite simply, a man amongst boys a lot of the time.
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Are you contractually obligated to say dumb shit?
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This is the funniest post I've read here in a while.
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Reminds me of the CP take that McDuffy is injury prone.
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He's an SDE - his job is to muck shit up more than finish it. And he typically does a fine job of that, especially for a rookie.

The problem isn't Karlaftis, it's the failure to provide him with a complementary bookend. And ultimately it's the expectations laid out there by idiots with blogs and blue check marks who predicted him smashing DT's sack record.

That was always a completely asinine expectation.
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Exactly.
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Yeah, I'm not seeing the problem with these numbers.

There's supposedly 64 starting edge players and he's 47th as a rookie good for 2nd amongst rookies. Could it better? Sure. But damn, give the guy some time.
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I'm waiting to be proven wrong concerning Karlaftis after being a preseason MVP, but he's JAG. His most ardent supporters made him out to be post knee injury Justin Houston or prime Justin Smith.
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To be fair, every draft pick the Chiefs make are pumped up to be All Pros until they prove they aren't. Moore was going to be the #1 by the end of the season. Karlaftis was going to have 8 sacks, Kinnard was taking Wylie's job before the bye etc. All that shit has to come with a grain of salt.
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I get it, but he's not a sack specialist. He's never going to be one. DJ outlined it pretty well above somewhere, but essentially, George is never going to be Jared Allen. And forget about how many sacks he had or didn't have in college. Veach didn't pick him because he was the second coming of Derrick Thomas. He picked him because he showed multiple skillsets, one of them being his ability to get pressure, even when double-teamed (high motor/relentless).

He's going to play clean-up opposite someone more explosive. He's more of a Tamba Hali guy, that needs a more explosive EDGE on the other side to generate sacks consistently.
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