{"id":828731,"date":"2026-03-23T07:59:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/828731\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:59:31","slug":"details-emerge-on-49ers-one-year-deals-with-wr-christian-kirk-p-corliss-waitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/828731\/","title":{"rendered":"Details emerge on 49ers one-year deals with WR Christian Kirk, P Corliss Waitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"read tracker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774252771_253_ad-read-counter.gif\" class=\"ad-block advertisement adblock ad-container read-tracker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco 49ers added to their wide receiver room on Monday, agreeing to sign former Houston Texans WR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/K\/KirkCh01.htm\" data-playername=\"Christian Kirk\" title=\"Christian Kirk stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Kirk<\/a>. The 29-year-old from Texas A &amp; M will be entering his ninth NFL season this fall. In 2025, Kirk had 28 catches for 239 yards and one touchdown. He appeared in 13 games during his only season for the Texans. Kirk had previous stops in Jacksonville and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco also signed punter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WaitCo00.htm\" data-playername=\"Corliss Waitman\" title=\"Corliss Waitman stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Corliss Waitman<\/a>, formerly of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos. Last season, while with the Steelers, Waitman averaged 45.5 yards per punt, with a net average of 41.7 yards per punt. The 30-year-old punter has played in only four NFL seasons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OverTheCap.com<\/a> has published the contract details for both players, which are outlined below.<\/p>\n<p>WR Christian Kirk<\/p>\n<p>Kirk signed a one-year deal worth $3 million with $2.78 million fully guaranteed and a signing bonus of $1.17 million. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/player\/christian-kirk\/6932\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OverTheCap.com<\/a>, the details are broken down below.<\/p>\n<p>2026<br \/>Base salary: $1,610,000<br \/>Prorated signing bonus: $1,170,000<br \/>Total per-game roster bonus: $170,000<br \/>Workout bonus: $50,000<br \/>Guaranteed salary: $1,610,000<br \/>Salary cap number: $2,960,000<\/p>\n<p>Total<br \/>Base salary: $1,610,000<br \/>Prorated signing bonus: $1,170,000<br \/>Total per-game roster bonus: $170,000<br \/>Workout bonus: $50,000<br \/>Guaranteed salary: $1,610,000<br \/>Salary cap number: $2,960,000<\/p>\n<p>P Corliss Waitman<\/p>\n<p>Waitman&#8217;s one-year deal with the 49ers is worth $1.29 million, with $475,000 fully guaranteed and a signing bonus of $75,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/player\/corliss-waitman\/9101\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OverTheCap.com<\/a> has the contract details, which are broken down below.<\/p>\n<p>2026<br \/>Base salary: $1,215,000<br \/>Prorated signing bonus: $75,000<br \/>Guaranteed salary: $400,000<br \/>Salary cap number: $1,150,000<\/p>\n<p>Total<br \/>Base salary: $1,215,000<br \/>Prorated signing bonus: $75,000<br \/>Guaranteed salary: $400,000<br \/>Salary cap number: $1,150,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers added to their wide receiver room on Monday, agreeing to sign former Houston Texans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,304,26661,7,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":["post-828731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-49ers","tag-49ers","tag-christian-kirk","tag-corliss-waitman","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfrancisco49ers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116277436393023830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828731","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=828731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}