{"id":793879,"date":"2026-07-30T19:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793879\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:01:16","slug":"report-49ers-plan-to-sign-former-3rd-round-pick-josiah-deguara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793879\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: 49ers plan to sign former 3rd-round pick Josiah Deguara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Athletic\u2019s Matt Barrows tweeted that the San Francisco 49ers intend to sign tight end Josiah Deguara. He was drafted in the third round of the 2020 draft by the Green Bay Packers. Deguara has two seasons in the NFL where he had double-digit receptions, with the most recent one coming in 2022. He spent 2025 with the Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Deguara, listed at 6\u20192\u201d, 238 pounds, is built more like a wide receiver. As far as where he ran routes in Arizona last season, the Cardinals had him run 25 routes from the tight end alignment, 15 from the slot, and 14 out wide as a receiver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Looking back at his NFL Combine numbers, Deguara\u2019s height, weight, arm length, and hand size were all in the single percentiles. He\u2019s undersized and ran a 4.72 40-yard dash. The one trait Deguara has working in his favor is the bench press. He put up 25 reps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 49ers won\u2019t have George Kittle for the early part of training camp &#8212; at the very least, and after a few practices, they\u2019ve realized they need another body at the position during practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletic\u2019s Matt Barrows tweeted that the San Francisco 49ers intend to sign tight end Josiah Deguara. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,71438,99],"class_list":["post-793879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-free-agency","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793879","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=793879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}