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49ers TE George Kittle is Day to Day with a Foot Sprain

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Grant Cohn

October 20, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) catches the football against Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid (20) during the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
October 20, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) catches the football against Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid (20) during the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images / Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
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George Kittle apparently sprained his foot during the 49ers' 28-18 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday and is day to day.

The 49ers didn't list him in the injury report immediately after the game which suggests Kittle started feeling pain on Sunday night or Monday morning. It's too early to say whether Kittle will play Sunday night against the Dallas Cowboys. He could miss all three days of practice this week and still play this weekend if he feels healthy.

And the 49ers will need him to play because Brandon Aiyuk is out for the year with a torn ACL and MCL, Deebo Samuel is out indefinitely with pneumonia, Jauan Jennings could miss another week with a hip injury and Christian McCaffrey still is out with bilateral Achilles tendonitis. Which means all of the 49ers' best weapons are injured. Ricky Pearsall, Ronnie Bell and Eric Saubert all could start Sunday against Dallas. Not ideal.

Kittle, 31, is having a terrific season. Through six games, he has 34 catches and 5 touchdowns. He's not much of a YAC threat at this stage of his career but he has evolved into an elite red zone weapon. Which means he's essential to the offense because it stinks in the red zone this season.

But he seems to get injured every few games. Earlier this season, he missed a game with a hamstring injury and then a few weeks later he injured his ribs. Fortunately for the 49ers, he never misses much time.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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