George Kittle

George Kittle is San Francisco's TE1 at age 33, in his ninth NFL season. His production comes from efficient, moderate volume rather than heavy target share. Through 6 games in 2026 he has 36 targets, 26 catches, 337 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 9 red-zone targets. That works out to 6.0 targets, about 4.3 catches and 56 yards per game, at 13.0 yards per reception.

The usage is close to his recent norm. He averaged about 6.3 targets per game in both 2025 and 2024 and about 5.6 in 2023. His yardage, though, is below his best years: roughly 56 yards per game now, compared with 57 in 2025, 74 in 2024 and 64 in 2023. His catch rate has also dipped to about 72%, from roughly 83% in each of the past two seasons. What has changed is the scoring. He has 5 touchdowns in 6 games, about 0.83 per game, compared with 0.64 in 2025, 0.53 in 2024 and 0.38 in 2023. His red-zone looks are up too, at 1.5 per game against 1.09, 1.27 and 0.75 in the prior three seasons. All of that has produced about 15.0 PPR points per game, ranked 45th, which is in line with 14.7 in 2025 and 15.8 in 2024.

For fantasy and DFS, the touchdowns carry most of the weight. Those 5 scores account for 30 of his 89.7 points, and without them he would be averaging just under 10 per game. The growth in red-zone targets gives that some footing, but nearly one touchdown per game is well above anything he has done in the three seasons shown. The Clutch Edge projection of 19.3 points per game, ranked 43rd overall, sits above his per-game output in every one of those seasons. It assumes either the scoring continues or the yardage climbs back toward his 2024 level.

A few things would change the read. If his red-zone targets fall back toward the 2023–2025 range, his weekly floor looks closer to a mid-volume tight end's. If his yards per game rebound to the 64–74 range of 2023 and 2024 while the scoring holds, the projection looks reachable. He played 11 games in 2025, so availability is also worth watching.

Written by a language model from the stat lines below. Numbers from Sleeper; the 2026 line is the season in progress.