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Taking Stock of the 49ers Tight Ends

Are they getting better or worse?
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Taking Stock of the 49ers Tight Ends
Taking Stock of the 49ers Tight Ends

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Are the 49ers tight ends getting better or worse?

Let's take stock.

George Kittle

He was an All Pro this past season, which is a tremendous accomplishment for a 30-year-old tight end. Kittle has aged surprisingly well for a player who has dished out and taken so much punishment in his career. Still, he faded down the stretch, considering he had just 2 catches for 27 yards in the NFC Championship Game and 2 catches for a measly 4 yards in the Super Bowl. He's scheduled to cost the 49ers more than $21 million against the salary cap next season and they don't use him enough to justify paying him all that money. This could be his final year on the team.

Stock down.

Charlie Woerner

An unrestricted free agent who caught three passes last season and 11 in his four-year career. The 49ers have to find a better backup tight end.

Stock down.

Ross Dwelley

An unrestricted free agent who caught one pass last season. No clue why he was on the team.

Stock down.

Cam Latu

A third-round pick who was so bad in training camp that the 49ers put him on season-ending Injured Reserve before the season started. He may never make the team.

Stock down.

Brayden Willis

A seventh-round pick who played in 10 games including all three in the playoffs, caught zero passes and committed a holding penalty in overtime of the Super Bowl. Hard to say he has a bright future.

Stock down.

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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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