Kittle suffered the Achilles tear in the Niners’ wild-card win over the Philadelphia Eagles. The star said he knew immediately he’d popped the Achilles.<\/p>\n
“I knew exactly when it happened, it felt like someone put a shotgun up against my calf and pulled the trigger,” Kittle said. “The second it happened, I knew exactly what it was… Unfortunate, but football’s tough sometimes.”<\/p>\n
The 49ers will have several injuries to track this offseason, from Kittle to Fred Warner<\/a>‘s rehab from a broken right ankle, to Nick Bosa<\/a> (ACL), to Brock Purdy<\/a>‘s big right toe. Then there are the questions about the resolution of Brandon Aiyuk<\/a>‘s future, whether or not the Niners might trade Mac Jones<\/a> to a QB-needy squad, and the free-agent futures for the likes of key playmakers like Jauan Jennings<\/a>.<\/p>\n Given the year of injuries the Niners experienced yet again, the prospect of getting Kittle back during the early portion of the 2026 season would be a godsend for Kyle Shanahan, as San Francisco looks to return to the postseason for the sixth time in eight seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kittle suffered the Achilles tear in the Niners’ wild-card win over the Philadelphia Eagles. The star said he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,1227,7,6066,88,6,609,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-691198","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-around-the-nfl","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-george-kittle","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-san-francisco","16":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","17":"tag-sanfrancisco","18":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691198","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=691198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}