{"id":19095,"date":"2025-05-02T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/19095\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T23:03:08","slug":"49ers-bring-back-tight-end-ross-dwelley-from-falcons-on-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/19095\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers bring back tight end Ross Dwelley from Falcons on 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers are bringing back tight end Ross Dwelley to the Bay Area on a one-year deal after a season with the Atlanta Falcons, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old went undrafted in 2018 before signing with the 49ers and remaining there for his first six seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Dwelley was initially cut at the end of training camp before signing with San Francisco&#8217;s practice squad. The San Diego product was promoted to the active roster and made his NFL debut Oct. 15, 2018, in a road loss to the Green Bay Packers. Dwelley finished his rookie season with two catches for 14 yards in 11 games.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his seven-year career, Dwelley has played in 101 games with 17 starts and tallied 45 receptions for 523 yards and five touchdowns. He also appeared in seven postseason games.<\/p>\n<p>Dwelley returns to San Francisco despite a career-low year in Atlanta. In 17 games with the Falcons, he recorded one reception for five yards and no touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Dwelley&#8217;s signing comes shortly after star tight end George Kittle <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/article\/49ers-reportedly-make-george-kittle-highest-paid-tight-end-with-four-year-76-million-extension-120701192.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:inked a four-year extension worth $76.4 million with $40 million;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inked a four-year extension worth $76.4 million with $40 million<\/a> guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Kittle, Dwelley joins Luke Farrell, Mason Pline, Jake Tonges and Brayden Willis on San Francisco&#8217;s tight end depth chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers are bringing back tight end Ross Dwelley to the Bay Area on a one-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[220,223,254,2554,9508,224,7,6066,9509,6,9506,9507,8646],"class_list":{"0":"post-19095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-brayden-willis","13":"tag-falcons","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-george-kittle","16":"tag-jake-tonges","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-ross-dwelley","19":"tag-san-fransisco","20":"tag-the-green-bay-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114440739518645474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19095","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=19095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}