Bryan Cook

Four-year KC arc: 27 rookie tackles to a 65-tackle peak in 2024 to 49 more in 2025.

Cook was a 2nd-round pick (62nd overall) in 2022 and stepped into a rotational safety role on the Chiefs team that won Super Bowl LVII. The arc:

- 2022: 27 tackles, 3 PDs across 18 games (regular + playoffs) - 2023: 22 tackles in 12 games (back-to-back SB wins, LVIII) - 2024: 65 tackles, 6 PDs across 20 games — a true full-time starter season in KC's NFC-championship-equivalent run - 2025: 49 tackles, 6 PDs in 16 games

2-time Super Bowl champion — LVII and LVIII as a young safety on Spagnuolo's defense.

Cook has two Super Bowl rings from his first two NFL seasons:

- SB LVII (Feb 2023) — beat PHI 38-35. Rookie-year contributor. - SB LVIII (Feb 2024) — beat SF in OT. Second-year piece of the secondary.

His postseason game count says it all: 18 games in 2022, 12 in 2023, 20 in 2024. The 2022 and 2024 totals include 3-game playoff runs to the Super Bowl.

Career split: 49 tackles in his first 30 games, 114 in his last 36 — the move from rotation to starter.

The jump is stark: his per-game tackle rate nearly doubled when he became a full-time starter in 2024. The Chiefs handed him the dime/box safety role and his counting stats responded accordingly.

The 65-tackle 2024 season is the marker — his first time clearing 50 tackles, and on a team that played 20 games.

163 career tackles in 66 games — a 2.47/game pace, but the trajectory says the real number is higher.

Career line: 163 tackles, 3 TFL, 1 sack, 2 QB hits, 17 PDs in 66 games. The headline rate is 2.47 tackles per game.

But split the resume in two: early-career rotation (1.63 T/G) vs starter era (3.17 T/G). He's currently producing closer to 3-tackle-per-game pace, which over a normal 17-game season puts him at ~50-55 tackles — a baseline starter line in any defensive backfield.

Almost no pressure stats — 1 career sack, 2 QB hits — a pure deep-and-clean-up profile.

Cook's career pressure totals: 1 sack, 2 QB hits, 3 TFL across 66 games. That's a near-zero blitz role — Spagnuolo doesn't use him pre-snap. His contribution is all post-snap: tackles in the alley, PDs on intermediate throws.

For a safety, that's an unusual profile in the modern NFL — most starters get 2-3 simulated-blitz pressure plays a year. Cook's number is essentially flat across four seasons.

2025: 49 tackles in 16 games — first season since 2022 where he didn't play a playoff game in this dataset.

His game counts are the giveaway for KC's playoff runs:

- 2022: 18 (17 RS + 1 playoff, includes SB LVII) - 2023: 12 (injury-shortened, still won SB LVIII) - 2024: 20 (17 RS + 3 playoff games) - 2025: 16 — back to regular-season volume

Despite the lower count, his 2025 line (49 tackles, 6 PDs) is on the same per-game pace as his 2024 breakout year. The starter role is now the steady-state.