49ers’ George Kittle shares hilarious ‘welcome to the NFL’ restroom story featuring Joe Staley
“It’s one of those older, college bar vibes,” Kittle said. “So, the bathroom, it’s exactly what you think it looks like—like a rusty door that doesn’t really close, all that stuff. So, I’m peeing in the toilet in the stall, and there’s another rookie in there, in the other stall, and I just hear the door gets kicked open. And Joe Staley just goes, ‘One of you guys got to move! I got to go!'”
“He literally
just takes the door off into my stall, and he goes, ‘Kittle, get out or move over,'” Kittle continued. “And I said, ‘I’ll move over, Mr. Joe Staley.’…..”I was terrified,” Kittle added. “That was like my second week on the Niners.”
49ers’ George Kittle raves: ‘I’m all-in on Mike Evans’
“One thing that I was talking to Purdy about a couple of days ago was that this is our first veteran wide receiver since we had Emmanuel Sanders,” Kittle said. “Like, I had Deebo [Samuel], I had [Brandon] Aiyuk, but they were both like years one through four—Deebo was like year five.
“But Mike Evans is a guy, like, just watching him and his savviness—you know the concept, you have coverage in the red zone, one guy has the corner, the other guy has the ‘now’ route underneath it—and the way he sets it up versus a defender with outside leverage and then just gets wide open, and I’m just like, ‘It’s so fun to watch….Just so savvy,” Kittle added. “Catches everything, runs great routes, gives great effort. I’m all-in on Mike Evans.”
Who was the 49ers’ most underrated free-agent addition?
“When offensive line coach Chris Foerster was asked about the options at left guard in the spring, he said, “I don’t know if one person is going to win the job.” Toth didn’t do much during the spring, but Foerster said he’ll be the backup center, whether he starts at left guard or not.
There’s a hope that Connor Colby takes the Year 2 leap, but that is nothing but projection.
Process of elimination brings me to Robert Jones, who has played the position at the highest level in the NFL. Jones has played just under 1,900 career snaps and only committed four penalties. He allowed four sacks as a starter in 2024 but had a blown-block rate of 2.9 percent. For reference, Colby’s and Spencer Burford’s blown block percentage in the passing game was 6.3 percent last season.
Experience should win out.”
