
Draft Note by John Paulsen
The three-round ADP difference between Brock Bowers and Kittle is too much, given that Kittle is coming off an overall TE1 season and will benefit from the absence of Deebo Samuel. Over the past two seasons, when Samuel has been out, Kittle has averaged 5.4-78-0.47 on 6.6 targets per game (in 17 games) versus 3.6-57-0.43 on 5.1 targets per game (in 14 games). That’s the difference between an overall TE1 season and a midrange TE1 finish. The primary concern with Kittle is probably age/durability, but he’s only missed six games in the last three seasons, and he’s posted back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons with 25 touchdown catches in his last three seasons.
George Kittle
- TE
- , San Francisco 49ers
- 32
- 250 lbs
- 6' 4"
- Iowa
- 33
- 1
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Draft note
The three-round ADP difference between Brock Bowers and Kittle is too much, given that Kittle is coming off an overall TE1 season and will benefit from the absence of Deebo Samuel. Over the past two seasons, when Samuel has been out, Kittle has averaged 5.4-78-0.47 on 6.6 targets per game (in 17 games) versus 3.6-57-0.43 on 5.1 targets per game (in 14 games). That’s the difference between an overall TE1 season and a midrange TE1 finish. The primary concern with Kittle is probably age/durability, but he’s only missed six games in the last three seasons, and he’s posted back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons with 25 touchdown catches in his last three seasons.
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2025 Strength of Schedule - SF
W1 | W2 | W3 | W4 | W5 | W6 | W7 | W8 | W9 | W10 | W11 | W12 | W13 | W14 | W15 | W16 | W17 | W18 |
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11 @SEA | 18 @NO | 9 ARI | 29 JAX | 21 @LAR | 26 @TB | 16 ATL | 13 @HOU | 2 @NYG | 21 LAR | 9 @ARI | 31 CAR | 15 @CLE | BYE | 8 TEN | 32 @IND | 24 CHI | 11 SEA |
Schedule difficulty based on schedule-adjusted, positional defensive ranking. Top DEF = 1, bottom DEF = 32.
Game Stats
Week | Opp | Rec | RecYds | RecTD | Tgts | YPR | RuAtt | RuYds | RuTD | Fum | YPC | STD | 0.5 PPR | PPR | Snaps | % |
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1 | NYJ | 4 | 40 | 0 | 5 | 10.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 4.0 | 6.00 | 8.0 | 66/72 | 91.7% |
2 | @MIN | 7 | 76 | 1 | 8 | 10.86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 13.6 | 17.10 | 20.6 | 51/70 | 72.9% |
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Injury Details (w3)
Status: Out Injury: Hamstring | @LAR | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
4 | NE | 4 | 45 | 1 | 4 | 11.25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 10.5 | 12.50 | 14.5 | 59/63 | 93.7% |
5 | ARI | 8 | 64 | 1 | 12 | 8.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 12.4 | 16.40 | 20.4 | 58/64 | 90.6% |
6 | @SEA | 5 | 58 | 2 | 6 | 11.60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 17.8 | 20.30 | 22.8 | 57/65 | 87.7% |
7 | KC | 6 | 92 | 0 | 7 | 15.33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 9.2 | 12.20 | 15.2 | 58/63 | 92.1% |
8 | DAL | 6 | 128 | 1 | 7 | 21.33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 18.8 | 21.80 | 24.8 | 64/68 | 94.1% |
9 | BYE | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
10 | @TB | 3 | 57 | 1 | 4 | 19.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 11.7 | 13.20 | 14.7 | 57/64 | 89.1% |
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Injury Details (w11)
Status: Out Injury: Hamstring | SEA | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
12 | @GB | 6 | 82 | 1 | 6 | 13.67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 14.2 | 17.20 | 20.2 | 41/49 | 83.7% |
13 | @BUF | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 7.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.7 | 1.20 | 1.7 | 48/48 | 100.0% |
14 | CHI | 6 | 151 | 0 | 6 | 25.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 15.1 | 18.10 | 21.1 | 52/61 | 85.2% |
15 | LAR | 4 | 61 | 0 | 7 | 15.25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 6.1 | 8.10 | 10.1 | 52/54 | 96.3% |
16 | @MIA | 8 | 106 | 0 | 9 | 13.25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 10.6 | 14.60 | 18.6 | 63/64 | 98.4% |
17 | DET | 8 | 112 | 0 | 8 | 14.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 11.2 | 15.20 | 19.2 | 60/64 | 93.8% |
18 | @ARI | 2 | 27 | 0 | 3 | 13.50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.7 | 3.70 | 4.7 | 22/76 | 28.9% |
Per game | 5.20 | 73.73 | 0.53 | 6.27 | 14.18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 10.57 | 13.17 | 15.77 | 53.87/63.00 | 86.54% | |
Totals | 78 | 1106 | 8 | 94 | 14.18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 158.6 | 197.6 | 236.6 | 808/945 | 86.54% |