{"id":125628,"date":"2025-06-13T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/125628\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:34:09","slug":"george-kittle-defends-ex-49er-deebo-samuel-from-social-media-slander-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/125628\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kittle defends ex-49er Deebo Samuel from social media slander \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/K\/KittGe00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Kittle<\/a> has gone from blocking defenders on the football field for former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/deebo-samuel-trade-commanders\/1729177\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">49ers teammate Deebo Samuel<\/a> to blocking out his haters on social media.<\/p>\n<p>As footage of Samuel at Washington Commanders minicamp this week went viral, mostly for the wrong reasons, Kittle quickly came to the receiver&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s called group install when players jog thru plays. Knock it off<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Kittle (@gkittle46) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gkittle46\/status\/1932955418332217821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 21-second clip shows Samuel running routes with his new team, which garnered plenty of criticism for the perceived lack of effort from the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>But Kittle, an eight-year vet, attributes Samuel&#8217;s effort to the simple fact that it&#8217;s only minicamp, and a time when coaches and teams are in the process of teaching and practicing a specific set of plays, formations or concepts.<\/p>\n<p>The social media football experts, however, weren&#8217;t as understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to Kittle, though, who was teammates with Samuel for six NFL seasons, to have his forever brother&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n<p>Even repping a different jersey, the red and gold loyalty runs deep for Kittle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/49ers-talk-with-matt-maiocco.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the 49ers Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Kittle has gone from blocking defenders on the football field for former 49ers teammate Deebo Samuel to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,1705,7,6066,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-125628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-deebo-samuel","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-george-kittle","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114673959964218964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}