Moments after putting the finishing touches on his eighth NFL season, tight end George Kittle made it clear that he wants to finish his career where it started: with the San Francisco 49ers.
Kittle took a significant step toward reaching that goal as he and the Niners agreed to a four-year, $76.4 million contract extension that will keep him with the only NFL team he’s ever known, he told the “Bussin’ With The Boys” podcast Tuesday.
The extension includes $40 million in guaranteed money and will almost certainly lower Kittle’s previously scheduled 2025 salary cap number of $22,085,000. That cap hit would exceed his previous highest cap hit by a little less than $10 million.
It also puts Kittle, 31. who has vowed to keep playing “until the wheels fall off,” in position to play his entire career with the team that selected him with a fifth-round pick in the 2017 NFL draft.
