{"id":747372,"date":"2026-07-06T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747372\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:26:08","slug":"george-kittle-mike-evans-is-our-first-veteran-wr-since-emmanuel-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747372\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kittle: Mike Evans is our first veteran WR since Emmanuel Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk called Mike Evans \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/kyle-juszczyk-mike-evans-has-been-unguardable-at-practice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">unguardable<\/a>\u201d during the offseason practices. 49ers tight end George Kittle concurs.<\/p>\n<p>Kittle lauded Evans\u2019 veteran leadership and football IQ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that I was talking to [quarterback Brock] Purdy about a couple of days ago was that this is <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.49erswebzone.com\/articles\/201350-49ers-george-kittle-raves-all-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">our first veteran wide receiver<\/a> since we had Emmanuel Sanders,\u201d Kittle said recently on the New Heights podcast, via David Bonilla of 49erswebzone.com. \u201cLike, I had Deebo [Samuel]. I had Brandon Aiyuk. But they were both like years one through four\u2014Deebo was like year five.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Mike Evans is a guy, like, just watching him and his savviness\u2014you know the concept; you have coverage in the red zone; one guy has the corner; the other guy has the \u2018now\u2019 route underneath it\u2014and the way he sets it up versus a defender with outside leverage and then just gets wide open, and I\u2019m just like, \u2018It\u2019s so fun to watch.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers, even with all their injuries last season, still finished fifth in passing offense. If Evans can stay healthy, he should make them even better.<\/p>\n<p>Evans\u2019 NFL-record 11 consecutive 1,000-yard seasons to start his career ended last season when he had career-lows in catches (30), yards (368) and touchdowns (three) because of a collarbone injury that limited him to a career-low eight games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust so savvy,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cCatches everything; runs great routes; gives great effort. I\u2019m all-in on Mike Evans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk called Mike Evans \u201cunguardable\u201d during the offseason practices. 49ers tight end George Kittle concurs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-747372","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\/747372","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=747372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}