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49ers TE George Kittle Returns to Practice Following a Foot Sprain

Good thing Kittle is tough.

Grant Cohn

Oct 10, 2024; Seattle, Washington, USA; San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) during warmups before the game against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images
Oct 10, 2024; Seattle, Washington, USA; San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) during warmups before the game against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images / Steven Bisig-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- It looks like the 49ers will have their All Pro tight end for Sunday night's game against the Dallas Cowboys.

George Kittle, who missed Wednesday's practice with a foot sprain, returned to practice on Thursday in a limited capacity. And he looked spry and healthy. I'm not saying he felt spry and healthy -- I'm not in his body. But Kittle is extremely tough. He could play on Sunday even if he missed the entire week of practices. So the fact that he was healthy enough to suit up on a Thursday suggests he'll find a way to suit up when it counts on Sunday.

Kittle recently turned 31 and has been injured in one way or another for most of the season. First, he had a hamstring pull. Then he had a rib injury. Now he has a foot issue. Which seems to suggest his aging body is beginning to slowly break down. But to his credit, he has missed just one game so far this season even though he has missed a few practices.

And through six games, Kittle has a whopping 5 touchdown catches. He's not the YAC threat he was when he was in his mid-20s, but he has become a much better red-zone threat than he ever has been before. And the 49ers are struggling in the red zone this season, which means they'll need him to play Sunday against the Cowboys if they're going to score touchdowns.

Good thing Kittle is tough.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

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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