George Kittle injury update: 49ers TE’s status for Sunday vs. Rams in question
George Kittle was not seen at practice on Thursday due to a hamstring injury, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. The San Francisco 49ers tight end could miss Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Rams.
Schefter said that Kittle was experiencing tightness in his hamstring. Kittle was not on the injury report on Wednesday, so it’s not clear when the injury happened. Kittle is coming off a Week 2 performance where he caught seven passes for 76 yards and one touchdown in a 23-17 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. In the season opener against the New York Jets, the Iowa Hawkeyes alum caught four passes for 40 yards.
Kittle is looking to build on an All-Pro 2023 season, catching 65 passes for 1,020 yards and six touchdowns. His production helped the 49ers reach the Super Bowl for the second time in five seasons.
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At the end of the 2023 season, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan talked to NBC Sports Bay Area about the growth he’s seen from Kittle. “When you talk about those stats and stuff, that means that it is donning on you that he [Kittle] is a Hall of Fame-type of player,” he said. “First time I’d say that was 2018, in the second year. We didn’t have a lot to play for there at the end. We were pretty banged up, (and) lost our quarterback at the end of the third week of the year.
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“We had to go to George a lot more, and what he was able to do in that year … He had more yards that year than any tight end in the history of football, and the way he did it: just the run after the catch was what was so unbelievable. The explosiveness he had. He was always that in the run game for us. And he was a big weapon for us as a rookie, but the step he took his second year and what it led to the third year and the Super Bowl. It started pretty early.”