{"id":134401,"date":"2025-07-22T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/134401\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:31:11","slug":"san-francisco-49ers-george-kittle-pops-up-virtually-to-announce-nashville-predators-no-21-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/134401\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers&#8217; George Kittle pops up virtually to announce Nashville Predators&#8217; No. 21 draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Francisco 49ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/filip-forsbergs-bestie-49ers-te-013920369.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:tight end George Kittle;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\">tight end George Kittle<\/a> made an appearance at the 2025 NHL Draft on June 27.<\/p>\n<p>Kittle, who is close to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/sports\/predators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nashville Predators&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nashville Predators&#8217;<\/a> forward Filip Forsberg and also hosts Tight End University in Nashville, went virtual to announce the team&#8217;s second pick of the day, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/nashville-predators-trade-select-defenseman-021040869.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:defenseman Cameron Reid;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\">defenseman Cameron Reid<\/a> at No. 21 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kittle has a history of appearing at <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/nashville-predators\/4980\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Predators;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Predators<\/a> games, and he spends much of the offseason training in Nashville. In the 2024 playoffs, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/filip-forsbergs-bestie-49ers-te-013920369.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:he made an appearance at Bridgestone Arena to hype up the crowd against the Vancouver Canucks;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\">he made an appearance at Bridgestone Arena to hype up the crowd against the Vancouver Canucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old tight end has caught 538 passes for 7,380 yards and 45 touchdowns for the 49ers in eight seasons, and has been named to the Pro Bowl six times since being drafted in the fifth round in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Daugherty is the Predators beat writer for The Tennessean. Contact Alex at <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/mailto:jdaugherty@gannett.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:jdaugherty@gannett.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jdaugherty@gannett.com<\/a>. Follow Alex on X, the platform formerly called Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexDaugherty1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@alexdaugherty1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@alexdaugherty1<\/a>.\u00a0Also check out our Predators exclusive Instagram page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tennessean_preds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@tennessean_preds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@tennessean_preds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/predators\/2025\/06\/27\/george-kittle-nashville-predators-draft-pick\/84395477007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:49ers tight end George Kittle announces Predators&#039; draft pick;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">49ers tight end George Kittle announces Predators&#8217; draft pick<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle made an appearance at the 2025 NHL Draft on June 27.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[2416,709,3577,18709,5,2409,231,5281,4,2410,18710,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-134401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-bridgestone-arena","9":"tag-cameron-reid","10":"tag-filip-forsberg","11":"tag-george-kittle","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nashville","14":"tag-nashville-predators","15":"tag-nashvillepredators","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-predators","18":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","19":"tag-vancouver-canucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114897373571462302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}