• Career Stats
    Receiving
    YearGPRrec/ydsaveTDsFSV
    202114 3 71/910 12.8 6 200
    20208 19 48/634 13.2 2 125
    201914 3 85/1053 12.4 5 223
    201816 2 88/1377 15.6 5 257
    201715 20 43/515 12.0 2 107
  • (Month:Week)
2022 Stats | SFOWeek
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 TOT
TM Snap % - - 91% 94% 88% 98% 89% 100% - 100% 74% - - - - - - - 94%
recYds - - 28 24 47 83 98 39 - 21 84 - - - - - - - 424
Tar/Rec - - 5/4 4/2 6/5 10/8 9/6 5/3 - 2/1 6/4 - - - - - - - 47/33
TM Tar% - - 17% 17% 21% 26% 20% 19% - 7% % - - - - - - - 19%
recTDs - - 0 0 0 0 1 1 - 0 2 - - - - - - - 4
FScore 0 0 2 2 4 8 15 9 0 2 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66
FS/PPR 0 0 6 4 9 16 21 12 0 3 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 99
Opp @ chi sea @ den lar @ car @ atl kc @ lar bye lac @ ari no mia tb @ sea was @ lvr ari  
 
2021 Stats | SFOWeek
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 TOT
TM Snap % 95% 100% 100% 92% - - - - 73% 76% 83% 93% 93% 96% 96% 100% 95% 94% 92%
rshYds 0 0 9 0 - - - - 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 6 0 20
rushes 0 0 1 0 - - - - 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3
rshTDs 0 0 0 0 - - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
recYds 78 17 92 40 - - - - 101 50 34 13 181 151 93 21 29 10 910
Tar/Rec 5/4 4/4 9/7 10/4 - - - - 8/6 7/5 4/4 2/1 12/9 15/13 6/6 3/2 2/1 7/5 94/71
TM Tar% 22% 14% 24% 30% - - - - 21% 37% 21% 8% 40% 41% 26% 9% 9% 9% 22%
recTDs 0 0 0 0 - - - - 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 6
FScore 7 1 10 4 0 0 0 0 16 11 9 1 30 21 9 2 3 1 129
FS/PPR 11 5 17 8 0 0 0 0 22 16 13 2 39 34 15 4 4 6 200
Opp @ det @ phi gb sea @ ari bye ind @ chi ari lar @ jac min @ sea @ cin atl @ ten hou @ lar  
 
2020 Stats | SFOWeek
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 TOT
TM Snap % 98% - - 99% 100% 97% 91% 66% - - - - - - - 50% - 87%
rshYds 9 - - 8 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - - 0 0 17
rushes 1 - - 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - - 0 0 2
rshTDs 0 - - 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - - 0 0 0
recYds 44 - - 183 44 109 55 39 - - - - - - - 92 68 634
Tar/Rec 5/4 - - 15/15 8/4 10/7 7/5 4/2 - - - - - - - 5/4 9/7 63/48
TM Tar% 16% - - 38% 23% 31% 29% 10% - - - - - - - 28% - 25%
recTDs 0 - - 1 0 1 0 0 - - - - - - - 0 0 2
FScore 5 0 0 25 4 16 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 6 77
FS/PPR 9 0 0 40 8 23 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 13 125
Opp ari @ nyj @ nyg phi mia lar @ ne @ sea gb @ no bye @ lar buf was @ dal @ ari sea  
 
2019 Stats | SFOWeek
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 TOT
rshYds 0 0 0 - 18 0 0 0 0 - - 0 -3 0 0 0 7 22
rushes 0 0 0 - 1 0 2 0 0 - - 0 1 0 0 0 1 5
rshTDs 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
recYds 54 54 57 - 70 103 38 86 79 - - 129 17 67 134 79 86 1053
Tar/Rec 10/8 3/3 8/6 - 8/6 8/8 5/3 7/6 8/6 - - 6/6 4/2 8/6 17/13 8/5 7/7 107/85
recTDs 0 0 0 - 1 0 0 0 1 - - 1 0 1 0 1 0 5
FScore 5 5 5 0 14 10 3 8 13 0 0 18 1 12 13 13 9 137
FS/PPR 13 8 11 0 20 18 6 14 19 0 0 24 3 18 26 18 16 222
Opp ari @ nyj @ nyg phi mia lar @ ne @ sea gb @ no bye @ lar buf was @ dal @ ari sea  
 

George Kittle 2022 Outlook
The 49ers continued their trend of passing on drafting a receiving threat at tight end to go with Kittle. This season, Kittle was on injured reserve for nearly a month due to a calf injury. He finished the season with 71 receptions for 910 yards and a career-high six touchdowns. According to Pro Football Network's Jason Katz, Kittle is probably the best overall tight end in the NFL. Katz went on to note that's great for the 49ers, but from a fantasy perspective, we don't want our tight ends to be elite blockers. We want them running routes. Kittle has been a top-5 tight end since he broke out in 2018 but has always felt a bit ceiling capped. Kittle's breakout season came in 2018. His 1,377 receiving yards led all tight ends. He posted career-highs in targets (135), receptions (88), and yards per reception (15.6) as well. Following this breakout, however, Kittle's production stagnated. As Katz added: "By no means should anyone scoff at a guy who has averaged 14-16 points per game" for four consecutive seasons and finished no lower than fourth in any of them. So among the higher-end producers at this position, consistency is king. Kittle might not be a league winner, but he still offers that weekly leverage over the field we need. That's what keeps him locked well inside the top 5 at this position.

George Kittle 2021 Outlook
Kittle doesn't just come in second in our fantasy rankings, he's also next man up in Ben Linsey's analytics-based rankings as well. The only thing keeping Kittle from the top spot in Linsey’s rankings was an injury-limited 2020 season. "Kittle still imposed his will as both a receiver and blocker when on the field in 2020. The issue was that he was only on the field for eight games, missing significant time with a broken bone in his foot. Since 2018, Kittle is the highest-graded tight end in the NFL (93.4) on the back of the highest receiving grade at the position (93.7) and third-highest run-blocking grade (78.0). Unlike Kelce, the majority of his damage comes inline, where Kyle Shanahan does as good of a job as any coach in the NFL at creating mismatches in coverage. Kittle's 1,811 receiving yards when lined up inline since 2018 are over 500 more than any other tight end." Beyond that, in the eight games he was active, Kittle averaged 7.9 targets, 79.3 yards and 15.6 fantasy points. Projected over a full season, Kittle would have finished with 96 catches, 1,284 yards and 250 fantasy points. A healthy Kittle, especially one with better QB play, will push Kelce.

George Kittle 2020 Outlook
Kittle has led the 49ers in receiving yards the past two seasons. His 1,377 yards in 2018 set an NFL single-season record for receiving yards by a tight end. 2020 marks the final season of his four-year rookie contract, and his next deal is expected to make him the highest-paid tight end in the NFL, and the Athletic reports it could "approach" terms of the top receivers in the league. They're most likely right. And fantasy owners can expect to pay up just like the Niners. Per NFL.com, Kittle missed two games in 2019, but he still tied Travis Kelce for the most fantasy points scored per game (15.9). He finished second in double-digit performances (11) and only Kelce had more games with 20-plus point games. NextGen Stats show that Kittle led the NFL in receiving yards per route run in 2019 with 3.3 (among those who ran a minimum of 100 routes). According to FantasyPros, Kittle, who failed to produce top-20 numbers in just one game, compiled a 79.4 percent catch-rate in 2019, the third highest mark of all-time among tight ends who've seen at least 50 targets. But CBSSports.com offers this to seal the deal: "The 15.2 PPR Fantasy points per game [Kittle] averaged was on par with Allen Robinson's 15.5, and Robinson finished as a top-10 receiver." So, no. Given the positional scarcity at TE, Round 2 is not too early.