Golden Nuggets: Kittle talks Kyle

“The Ringer’s Kevin Clark and Steven Ruiz are joined by star 49ers tight end George Kittle to talk ball. They discuss the changing tight end position, how he’s processing the NFC championship loss, the ways head coach Kyle Shanahan utilizes the 49ers skill players, and more (0:33).”

Kittle details Shanahan’s method for calling play-action passes

“We played Seattle in the playoffs this year and Kyle has this thing where if he wants to set up a play action or a bootleg type, we’ll sometimes call a run play that he knows is not going to work,” Kittle explained “... We’re running a run play multiple times, and it’s averaging like two yards a carry, two yards a carry, two yards a carry, and we…