{"id":146348,"date":"2025-06-21T01:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T01:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/146348\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T01:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T01:50:12","slug":"george-kittle-reacts-to-sam-laportas-major-personal-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/146348\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kittle Reacts to Sam LaPorta’s Major Personal Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Kittle Reacts to Sam LaPorta’s Major Personal Announcement<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sam LaPorta is heading into his third season as a star tight end for the Detroit Lions, looking to build off two impressive campaigns to begin his NFL career.<\/p>\n

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In 33 regular-season game appearances for the Lions, LaPorta reeled in 146 catches for 1,615 yards and 17 touchdowns. The former second-round draft pick will now look to continue that impressive production in Detroit’s upcoming 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Off the field, LaPorta has had a busy offseason following Year 2 in the NFL. This past Saturday, the 24-year-old tight end married his longtime partner Callahan Dellinger.<\/p>\n

LaPorta and his newly-wed wife shared the news of their wedding ceremony with a joint Instagram post on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“A house built on rock.6\/14\/25,” the couple wrote.<\/p>\n

Friends flooded the comments section with reactions to this news. One of the most notable reactions was from San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle.<\/p>\n

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“Congrats !!” Kittle wrote in the comments.<\/p>\n

LaPorta and Kittle both famously played their college football careers as standout tight ends for the Iowa Hawkeyes.<\/p>\n

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Detroit Lions tight end Sam LaPorta (87) celebrates a play against Tennessee Titans with offensive tackle Penei Sewell (58) during the second half at Ford Field in Detroit on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. \u00a9 Junfu Han &sol; USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

\u201cLaPorta is going to be fantastic. I think Laporta\u2019s the best tight end in the draft class. I think the Lions got a complete steal,” Kittle said after Detroit selected LaPorta with the No. 34 pick in the 2023 NFL draft. “I like the other tight ends too, but I spent two weeks training with Sam LaPorta, and the way he moves — oh yeah, he\u2019s got the dog in him. He\u2019s kind of quirky, he\u2019s kind of goofy, too. He\u2019s going to fit in well.\u201d<\/p>\n

LaPorta and the Lions will kickoff their 2025 regular-season schedule with a Week 1 matchup against the Green Bay Packers on Sep. 7.<\/p>\n

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Related: Broncos React to Notable Peyton Manning Announcement on Friday<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 20, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Kittle Reacts to Sam LaPorta’s Major Personal Announcement originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Sam LaPorta is heading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,2506,7,6066,345,147,6,645,7472,252,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-146348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroitlions","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-george-kittle","13":"tag-green-bay-packers","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-penei-sewell","17":"tag-sam-laporta","18":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","19":"tag-tennessee-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114718849717847420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146348","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=146348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}