it\u2019s not a crazy goal<\/a>,\u201d Kittle said, via David Bonilla of 49erswebzone.com. \u201cAnd so, as long as I keep on the right path and everything goes the right way, hey, I got a chance.<\/p>\n\u201cAs a 15-hour flight and a game like four days before a normal opening day, that might make it a little bit difficult \u2014 sure, but who doesn\u2019t like a challenge? So, no, I\u2019ve got a chance, like I said, so just going to keep my head down, keep grinding every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Head coach Kyle Shanahan has been quite clear about his frustrations with starting 2026 so far from home. Kittle didn\u2019t go nearly as far as Shanahan with his comments, but he did admit that he\u2019d prefer to start 2026 stateside.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt least, if we started the season off at home, and I didn\u2019t have to hop on a plane for 15 hours, it might be different,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cBut I think it just depends on how I\u2019m feeling, if I\u2019m cleared to go. If I\u2019m cleared, hey, I\u2019ll be there, and I\u2019ll be on the field. And if they\u2019re like, \u2018Hey, it\u2019s close,\u2019 it\u2019ll be a game-time decision. So, we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody keeps telling me I won\u2019t be back until Week 6, 7, or 8, and I\u2019ll be like, \u2018You guys believe whatever you want to believe.\u2019 My goal is to be back there as early as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kittle, 32, is entering his 10th pro season. He caught 57 passes for 628 yards with seven touchdowns in 11 games for San Francisco last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers tight end George Kittle suffered a torn Achilles in January during San Francisco\u2019s postseason win over Philadelphia.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-668720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}