{"id":194899,"date":"2026-03-17T13:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:05:26","slug":"49ers-sign-former-jaguars-wr-christian-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194899\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers sign former Jaguars’ WR Christian Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 16, 2026, 4:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Former Jacksonville Jaguars’<\/a> wide receiver Christian Kirk is signing with the San Francisco 49ers, according to Jordan Schultz.<\/p>\n

This is a one-year deal for Kirk worth $6 million.<\/p>\n

During the 2022 offseason, the Jaguars<\/a> signed Kirk to a four-year deal<\/a> with a max value of $84 million. In March of 2025, after three seasons with the team, the Jaguars traded Kirk to the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n

At the time, trading Kirk freed up $10.43 million in cap space for the 2025 season. In return, the Jaguars received a seventh-round pick in the 2026 NFL draft.<\/p>\n

In Kirk’s one season with Houston, he caught 28 passes for 239 yards with one touchdown during the regular season, per PFF<\/a>. In the playoffs, he had a 144-yard performance in the Texans’ wildcard win over Pittsburgh. Including the playoffs, Kirk appeared in 15 games with the Texans.<\/p>\n

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With the Jaguars, Kirk had been very effective when on the field and was a favorite target of quarterback Trevor Lawrence. After an\u00a01,100-yard<\/a>\u00a0season in 2022, Kirk totaled 787 yards in 2023, despite playing in only 12 games.<\/p>\n

However, injuries limited his impact in 2023 and 2024, with Kirk playing in only 19 out of a possible 34 games during that span.<\/p>\n

At the top of the wide receiver depth chart for the Jaguars in 2026 are Brian Thomas Jr., Parker Washington, Jakobi Meyers, and Travis Hunter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 16, 2026, 4:30 p.m. ET Former Jacksonville Jaguars’ wide receiver Christian Kirk is signing with the San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,116,118,117,1254,9548,298,434,420,12325,342,332,49,300,2047,423,34],"class_list":["post-194899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-accessfree","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","tag-sstsnjaguars","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbrian-thomas-jr","tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","tag-tagjakobi-meyers","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtravis-hunter","tag-tagtrevor-lawrence","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}