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<\/p>\nByNick Wagoner <\/p>\n
Saturday, October 18, 2025 9:40PM<\/p>\n
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — A week of positivity about George Kittle<\/a>‘s potential return to the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> culminated in the tight end being activated from injured reserve Saturday.<\/p>\n Kittle and defensive tackle Kevin Givens<\/a> were cleared to play in Sunday night’s home game against the Atlanta Falcons<\/a>. Coach Kyle Shanahan indicated Friday that would be the case when he said Kittle “is playing and Kevin most likely is.”<\/p>\n Kittle missed the past five games after injuring his right hamstring in the second quarter of the Sept. 7 season opener against Seattle. Kittle said Thursday he “fully” tore the hamstring but since it didn’t pull off the bone, he avoided a much longer recovery.<\/p>\n The 49ers had one roster spot open for Kittle or Givens from Friday when they placed receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling<\/a> on IR with a calf issue. Warner going to IR opened the other required spot. Also Saturday, San Francisco promoted defensive end Trevis Gipson<\/a> from the practice squad to the active roster and waived tight end Brayden Willis<\/a>. Meanwhile, offensive lineman Nick Zakelj<\/a> and receiver Malik Turner<\/a> were elevated from the practice squad for this week.<\/p>\n On Friday, the 49ers ruled out receiver Ricky Pearsall<\/a> (knee), quarterback Brock Purdy<\/a> (toe) and defensive lineman Yetur Gross-Matos<\/a> (hamstring).<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByNick Wagoner Saturday, October 18, 2025 9:40PM SANTA CLARA, Calif. — A week of positivity about George Kittle‘s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[10997,750,10995,10996,100,752,101,296,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-11902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-10997","tag-espn","tag-givens-kevin","tag-kittle-george","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}