Going into 2021, the Kansas City Chiefs decided that star defensive tackle Chris Jones would have more snaps at defensive end. The team didn’t intend for Jones to be a full-time defensive end — but with injuries (and a lack of depth on the roster), the team decided to experiment with Jones playing outside more often; it was something Jones had long wanted to do.
The results weren’t great. In Jones’s first six games of that season — in which he was aligned outside the tackle for a majority of his snaps — he only had 21 pressures and three sacks.