{"id":866573,"date":"2026-10-01T02:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866573\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T02:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:42:13","slug":"george-kittle-on-mike-evans-injury-fractured-ribs-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866573\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kittle on Mike Evans’ injury: Fractured ribs suck"},"content":{"rendered":"

49ers coach Kyle Shanahan wouldn\u2019t go into specifics about Mike Evans\u2019 rib injury. <\/p>\n

Shanahan was asked specifically whether Evans has a fractured rib. He said, \u201cThat\u2019s about as much as I know. Just rib,\u201d and a report called Evans\u2019 injury a rib \u201cstrain.\u201d<\/p>\n

49ers tight end George Kittle appeared to confirm that Evans does in fact have a fractured rib or ribs.<\/p>\n

\u201cFractured ribs suck<\/a>,\u201d Kittle said during an appearance on KNBR, via David Bonilla of 49erswebzone.com. \u201cHey, Mike\u2019s a stud. He\u2019ll do what\u2019s best for him and what\u2019s best for the team. We\u2019re not worried about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shanahan said Monday that he doesn\u2019t expect Evans\u2019 injury to be long-term, and the Pro Bowler is considered day-to-day.<\/p>\n

In three games this season, Evans has 12 receptions for 137 receiving yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers coach Kyle Shanahan wouldn\u2019t go into specifics about Mike Evans\u2019 rib injury. Shanahan was asked specifically whether…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-866573","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\/866573","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=866573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}