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Houston joined a Chiefs defensive front already featuring some quality edge players in Tamba Hali and Mike Vrabel. He remained a rotational player until halfway through the year, getting 5.5 sacks as a rookie. He would become a full-time starter the following season.
After eight seasons in Kansas City and now finishing his first with the Colts, Houston has started 111-of-117 career games, racking up 424 tackles (109 for loss), 88.5 sacks, 15 forced fumbles, 13 fumbles recovered, four interceptions, 32 pass breakups, two touchdowns, two safeties and 136 quarterback hits.
In the postseason, Houston has started 6-of-7 games and has 19 tackles (four for loss), 4.0 sacks, two fumbles recovered, three pass breakups and eight quarterback hits.
As one of the most dominant pass rushers of his generation, Houston has earned respect from everyone around the NFL, especially after getting 22.0 sacks in 2014, which was just one sack away from breaking Michael Strahan's single-season NFL record.
Houston was named First-Team All-Pro that year, and has been named five times to the "NFL Top 100" list (2013 [49], 2014 [57], 2015 [27], 2016 [26], 2017 [76]). He is a four-time Pro-Bowler (2012-15), one-time AFC Defensive Player of the Month (2013-September) and a three-time AFC Defensive Player of the Week (2013-Week 1, 2013-Week 3, 2019-Week 5).
Like Hilton, Houston ranks very highly among his current colleagues as well as those who have come before him:
- 1st among active players in safeties
- 8th among active players in sacks
- 13th among active players in tackles for loss
- 17th among active players in forced fumbles
- 29th in NFL history in career tackles for loss
- 53rd in NFL history in career sacks