In Good Company with Mitch Morse<\/a> podcast that he welcomed the opportunity to play in Kyle Shanahan’s offense. <\/p>\n“There’s just so much space when guys get the ball in their hands, and the way (Shanahan) is able to scheme different guys open, you know, playing off of play-action pass, run game, screens, the whole nine, right? Like, it’s just all about integrating yourself in that, and he does a great job of using guys to their skill set. So, I’m really excited about it.”<\/p>\n
The Niners also signed Mike Evans in free agency, but he’s coming off the worst season of his 12-year career. Youngster Ricky Pearsall has missed 14 games over his two years in the NFL. Veteran tight end George Kittle tore his Achilles in the postseason last year.<\/p>\n
The passing attack for the 49ers contains a whole lot of “maybes” in 2026\u2014Kirk included. But if the 29-year-old can stay healthy, Kirk should see 100-plus targets for the first time since that career season with the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time when Christian Kirk was anything but under the radar\u2014in 2022, the ninth-year veteran topped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-752833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}