49ers expected to sign 10-year veteran tight end [report]
“The soon-to-be 33-year-old’s second-best season came last year, when he tallied 55 catches for 496 yards and 4 TDs in 16 games for one of the league’s worst teams.
The addition is substantial given that the 49ers’ tight end room around Kittle was composed of Saubert, the still-not-healthy Cam Latu, Brayden Willis, undrafted free agent Mason Pline, and Jake Tonges. Depth was needed, and now the 49ers have a player who, if healthy, (as has mostly been the case aside from 2021, when he tore his ACL), will be a very solid TE2.