George Kittle
San Francisco 49ersGeorge Kittle has 34 catches, 425 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns in 7 games for the San Francisco 49ers this season through Week 8, 15.2 PPR points a game (updated November 4, 2026).
Model Score by season
Up 3.0 from last season.
How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →
STM Take
An all-time great tight end fighting durability, not decline.
The case for
- Seven Pro Bowls and two first-team All-Pros at age 32; the resume is among the deepest at the position in modern history.
- Five straight top-2 STTM finishes; the only player at any position with that consistency on this board.
The worry
- Only 11 games played in 2025; the durability is starting to fade at age 32.
- Recent game log includes a 1.6 PPR Week 19 finale; the floor weeks come now when he plays through injury.
What to watch: Games played in 2026; Kittle's tier-1 case is intact when he is on the field, but the games available are the limit.
Full take and bio
Kittle at STTM #2 tier 1 in 2025 closes the rare run of five straight top-2 finishes at the position (2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025). Seven Pro Bowls and two first-team All-Pros at age 32 is the all-time elite tier. The 11 games played in 2025 (vs. 17 from McBride) is the only thing keeping him below first overall, and 24.5 and 22.8 PPR weeks in his returns confirm the talent has not regressed.
Kittle was born in Madison, Wisconsin, attended Norman High in Oklahoma, and played at Iowa before the 49ers took him 146th overall in the 2017 NFL Draft. He has been two-time first-team All-Pro (2019, 2023), three-time second-team All-Pro (2018, 2022, 2024), and seven-time Pro Bowler (2018-2025 with one gap year). Career line is 595 catches for 8,008 yards and 52 receiving TDs across nine seasons.
Comps
The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.
Plays like: Vernon Davis, Jimmy Graham, Alge Crumpler. Built like: Jared Cook, Kyle Pitts, Noah Fant. Coming out: Virgil Green.
Of his 20 closest coming out: 1 star, 5 starters, 9 backups, 5 didn't stick.
George Kittle Injury StatusNot listed
George Kittle is not on the injury report as of Nov 4. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.
This season · 7 games
15.2 fantasy points a game, 106 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.
Contract2026 cap
Every year of the deal, the dead money and what a cut or trade saves on the Contract tab.
Fantasy outlookWeek 9
Our rest-of-season board has George Kittle at TE3; the model has 119 PPR points left for him this season.
Price a trade for him on the fantasy trade calculator, or see the whole board on the Fantasy hub.
Draft & College
Round 5, pick 146 to the San Francisco 49ers in 2017, out of Iowa (Big Ten). He went earlier than consensus.
In college, 2015-2016, 21 games: 41 rec, 568 yds, 9 TD, 13.9 yds/rec. Coming out: 4.52s 40 yd, 18 reps bench, 35" vertical, 132" broad.
Recruited
Class of 2012 · Receiver · High school: Norman, OK
IowaHis full list of offers is not on our record yet; offers for the 2012 class are still being added.