Kittle will keep the 49ers, the only team that has met, until 2029.
Moments after finishing its eighth season at the NFL, the closed wing George Kittle He made it clear that he wants to finish his career where he began: with the San Francisco 49ers.
Kittle took a significant step towards that goal by signing a Contract extension for four years that will keep it with the only NFL team that has met Until the 2029 seasonThe Niners announced on Tuesday. Kittle previously declared in the podcast “Bussin 'with the Boys” that The agreement amounted to 76.4 million dollars.
The extension includes 40 million dollars in guaranteed moneysaid Kittle, and almost certainly will reduce the salary limit scheduled for 2025, of 22,085,000 dollars. That impact on the salary stop would exceed its previous one in just under 10 million dollars.
“In 2017, our first year with the 49ers, we selected a closed wing of Iowa that excited us very much,” said General Manager John Lynch in a statement. “We had high hopes, but nobody knew it would become the player who is today.
“He feels a great pride in his role and has struggled to be one of the best closed wings of the NFL.”
Kittle, 31, promised to continue playing “until things fall apart”, in a position to play his entire career with the team that selected him in the fifth round.
“My goal is to wear the red and golden shirt all my career,” Kittle told ESPN on January 5.
Although the extension does not guarantee it, it certainly gives Kittle a great opportunity to achieve a short -term goal: to join the 10 -year club of the 49ers. This club honors players who have played at least 10 consecutive seasons in San Francisco and includes 51 players from the foundation of the team in 1946. The club has not added anyone since the Tackle Joe Staley in 2017.
Kittle will enter his ninth season in 2025, which means that he would only need to play one of the additional years added to his contract to be the following member. It is something that Kittle described as “a great goal for me.”
Moments after finishing his eighth season in the NFL, the closed wing George Kittle made it clear that he wants to finish his career where he began: with the San Francisco 49ers.
Kittle took a significant step towards that goal by signing a four -year contract extension that will keep it with the only NFL team he has met until the 2029 season, the Niners announced on Tuesday. Kittle previously declared in the podcast “Bussin 'with the Boys” that the agreement amounted to 76.4 million dollars.
The extension includes 40 million dollars in guaranteed money, Kittle said, and almost certainly will reduce the salary limit scheduled for 2025, from 22,085,000 dollars. That impact on the salary stop would exceed its previous one in just under 10 million dollars.
“In 2017, our first year with the 49ers, we selected a closed wing of Iowa that excited us very much,” said General Manager John Lynch in a statement. We had high hopes, but nobody knew it would become the player who is today.
He feels a great pride in his role and has strived to be one of the best closed wings of the NFL.
Kittle, 31, promised to continue playing “until things fall apart”, in a position to play his entire career with the team that selected him in the fifth round.
“My goal is to wear the red and golden shirt all my career,” Kittle told ESPN on January 5.
Although the extension does not guarantee it, it certainly gives Kittle a great opportunity to achieve a short -term goal: to join the 10 -year club of the 49ers. This club honors players who have played at least 10 consecutive seasons in San Francisco and includes 51 players from the foundation of the team in 1946. The club has not signed anyone since the Tackle Joe Staley in 2017.
Kittle will enter his ninth season in 2025, which means that he would only need to play one of the additional years added to his contract to be the following member. It is something that Kittle described as “a great goal for me.”
If Kittle continues in a trajectory similar to the current one, he should not have trouble reaching 10 years in San Francisco and more, since he comes from one of his best seasons.
In 2024, Kittle took third place among the wings closed in reception yards (1,106), he tied secondly in TouchDowns (eight) and was first in yards per reception (14.2), while continued being a key blocker in the land attack of San Francisco. That production earned his sixth selection to the Pro Bowl and another all-pronist honor (second team, his fifth mention to the first or second All-Pro team).
Kittle also became one of the five wings closed in the history of the League in having four or more seasons of 1,000 yards received, along with Travis Kelce (seven), Rob GronkowskiTony Gonzalez and Jason Witten (four each). He also exceeded Gronkowski with the second largest amount of yards received for a closed wing in his first eight seasons in the NFL (7,380), only behind Kelce.
“It has improved over time,” said the linebacker of Mexican and Panamanian roots Fred Warner. “Like good wine. He is doing an excellent job. It has always been excellent, but the fact that he is making the moves he is doing right now at this point in his career has been phenomenal.”
