{"id":201935,"date":"2025-07-12T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/201935\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:44:11","slug":"kyle-juszczyk-on-steelers-interest-49ers-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/201935\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Juszczyk On Steelers Interest, 49ers Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite taking a visit to the Steelers, 49ers fullback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JuszKy00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-12_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyle Juszczyk<\/a> never wanted to leave San Francisco when he was briefly made a free agent in March.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.profootballrumors.com\/files\/2024\/07\/USATSI_22128143-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-332755 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;margin: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/USATSI_22128143-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a>\u201cIt was the worst three days of my life, but I\u2019m genuinely grateful for it now,\u201d said Jusczyzk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6487070\/2025\/07\/11\/kyle-juszczyk-49ers-release-celebrity-golf\/?source=emp_shared_article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in an interview with The Athletic\u2019s Vic Tafur<\/a>. Even though he knew \u201cthe door wasn\u2019t shut\u201d when he was released by the 49ers, he still said his goodbyes and considered other options.<\/p>\n<p>While there was interest from other teams, Juszczyk accepted an invitation from the Steelers and met with head coach Mike Tomlin and\u00a0offensive coordinator Arthur Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a different experience,\u201d said Juszczyk of his visit to Pittsburgh. \u201cIt was a chance to go look at a different team and I felt a lot of love from them. I got excited for a second about what possibly could be, about new beginnings and fitting into a new offense, all that type of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Juszcyzk could not envision himself playing anywhere except San Francisco, and a few days later, he signed a two-year, $7.5MM deal to return for his ninth season with the 49ers. With $7MM of guaranteed money \u2013 including $3.15MM in the second year \u2013 he is confident that he will not have to deal with a similar situation next offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he will have two more years as a moveable blocking and receiving weapon in Kyle Shanahan\u2018s offense, which is expecting a bounce-back year with the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/McCaCh01.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-12_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian McCaffrey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jusczyzk said that McCaffrey is \u201carguably the best player in the NFL\u201d and \u201cchanges everything\u201d for the 49ers offense. Both participated in the team\u2019s offseason workouts, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/05\/49ers-reducing-christian-mccaffreys-offseason-workload\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McCaffrey\u2019s workload is being carefully managed<\/a> after his recent injury woes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looks so healthy, he looks so explosive,\u201d\u00a0said Juszcyzk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite taking a visit to the Steelers, 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk never wanted to leave San Francisco when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,2867,6,57,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-201935","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-football","10":"tag-kyle-juszczyk","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114841509437623023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201935","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=201935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}