Two Chiefs players featured on 2024 NFLPA All-Pro Team

The National Football League's Players' Association released its first annual All-Pro team last season to create a new way to recognize top performers from the NFL season. This year's iteration was just released on Wednesday, honoring another round of offensive and defensive stars with the second annual NFLPA All-Pro Team.

The Kansas City Chiefs had two players on the roster honored with this year's vote: defensive lineman Chris Jones and tight end Travis Kelce.

The NFLPA All-Pro team is a special award because it's entirely comprised of votes by active NFL players. Not only that but players cannot vote for any player who missed more than five games, so that cuts out any undeserving players based on name only who weren't really available.

The second annual NFLPA All-Pro Team came out on Wednesday.

Active players also cannot vote for themselves or any of their teammates. In addition, players can only vote for positions they truly know—the position they play themselves or the primary ones they go up against. For example, a wide receiver can vote for WR and cornerbacks.

The ability of Chris Jones to earn All-Pro status from his peers like this is pretty incredible considering he missed the first game of the year as part of a lengthy holdout that also kept him from any preseason workouts and training camp activities. He finished the year with 39 pressures and 10.5 sacks for K.C.

As for Kelce, he also missed the first game of the year due to injuries, faced constant double teams and extra attention, and played through more issues than ever, it seemed. Yet he still came out with 984 receiving yards on the season to lead the Chiefs. While his streak of 7 consecutive 1,000-yard seasons is now over, Kelce was as effective as possible given the Chiefs' lack of complementary pass catchers this year.

The NFLPA did announce that they would reveal deeper results of the league-wide vote in the weeks to come.