The Kansas City Chiefs secured a solid team win over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, but which individual players stood out in KC’s sixth win of the season? In this week’s look at Pro Football Focus ‘ Chiefs grades , a duo of do-it-all players earned the highest marks on the team.
Noah Gray earns No. 1 spot with 90.1 grade
No. 2 tight end Noah Gray earned the No. 1 spot among PFF ‘s Chiefs grades this week, and for good reason. As the Chiefs’ wide receivers continued to be decimated by injuries, Gray played his largest share of offensive snaps of the season (47 snaps, 67%) in San Francisco. (Gray played 51 snaps against the New Orleans Saints in Week 5, just under 61% of the offensive workload.) Gray also had his most productive stat line of the year, recording four catches for 66 yards, leading the team in receiving yards. Fittingly for Gray, all four of his catches produced first downs.
Per @pfref , #Chiefs TE Noah Gray has the highest success rate (80%) of *all* qualified pass catchers this season. Gray is also third in catch percentage and sixth in yards per target. Well worth his contract extension so far. pic.twitter.com/4oUnLCVAnK
— Jordan Foote (@footenoted) October 21, 2024
Gray is also earning a career-best 78.0 overall PFF grade to this point in the 2024 season, the third-best grade among 72 qualifying tight ends, while his 85.3 receiving grade is also third-best among 54 qualifying tight ends in 2024.
Noah. Gray. Hurdle. Play. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/B0fraqCsdI
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) October 22, 2024
Leo Chenal makes the most of heavy workload
PFF ‘s second-highest-graded Chief was linebacker Leo Chenal, who maximized what was narrowly his highest-usage game of the season. Chenal’s 38 defensive snaps were good for 60.3% of KC’s reps, essentially tying his Week 1 effort when he took 48 snaps — an even 60.0% — in Week 1 against the Baltimore Ravens. Chenal has seen his workload fluctuate based on matchups this season, bottoming out with 14 defensive snaps (23%) in Week 3 and 20 snaps (37.7%) in Week 5. With the 49ers’ propensity for heavy, condensed formations, defensive coordinator Steve Spagnulo rightly found a variety of ways to keep Chenal on the field, where he earned an 88.4 grade from PFF …