{"id":693371,"date":"2026-01-21T09:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/693371\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:20:15","slug":"49ers-george-kittle-reveals-support-after-achilles-injury-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/693371\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers\u2019 George Kittle reveals support after Achilles injury \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long road of recovery begins for 49ers\u00a0star\u00a0tight end\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/K\/KittGe00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">George Kittle<\/a>, and he has plenty of support by his side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kittle, who suffered a torn Achilles during the 49ers\u2019 playoff win over the Philadelphia\u00a0Eagles,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/george-kittle-texted-kyle-shanahan-achilles-surgery\/1907941\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">underwent surgery to repair his injury<\/a>\u00a0last Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old tight end said the support\u00a0he has\u00a0received since the injury has been \u201cfantastic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve heard from a ton of people,\u201d Kittle told reporters Monday. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/SherRi00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Richard Sherman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kirk Cousins reached out\u00a0immediately after I got hurt and just said if I have any questions, hit them up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both players mentioned by Kittle suffered the same injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sherman suffered a torn Achilles in November 2017 in his last season with the Seattle Seahawks. He was released the following offseason and\u00a0subsequently\u00a0signed\u00a0a three-year contract with\u00a0the\u00a049ers and\u00a0was ready to play in Week 1 of the 2018 NFL season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cousins was injured\u00a0in October 2023 in his last season with the Minnesota Vikings.\u00a0He became a free agent after the season ended and then signed a four-year, $180 million contract with the Atlanta Falcons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kittle also received support from athletes outside of the NFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve had so many players hit me up about it,\u201d Kittle explained. \u201cBasketball players, like so many guys just, \u2018Hey, what do you need? Let us know. This helped this worked for me in my recovery. This is the surgery that I\u00a0did.\u2019 \u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it&#8217;s kind of cool just to kind of bounce some ideas around some other people, and just the outpouring of love has been fantastic and has definitely raised my spirits.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kittle always seems to keep up the high spirits, but the\u00a0additional\u00a0support has surely helped in the face of one of the most devastating injuries an athlete can endure.<\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long road of recovery begins for 49ers\u00a0star\u00a0tight end\u00a0George Kittle, and he has plenty of support by his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6066,294,6,19604,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-693371","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-george-kittle","11":"tag-kirk-cousins","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-richard-sherman","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","16":"tag-sanfrancisco","17":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115932353516949097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693371","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=693371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}