{"id":314573,"date":"2025-10-18T23:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314573\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:19:10","slug":"49ers-news-george-kittle-is-back-brayden-willis-waived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314573\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers news: George Kittle is back; Brayden Willis waived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The San Francisco 49ers made a flurry of moves ahead of Sunday Night Football. George Kittle has officially been activated from the Injured Reserve list and will play in his first game since Week 1. Tight end Brayden Willis was waived. The team also activated defensive tackle Kevin Givens from the Injured Reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Edge rusher Trevis Gipson was promoted to the active roster from the practice squad, while wide receiver Malik Turner and offensive lineman Nick Zakelj were elevated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Turner has only played when Jauan Jennings sat out. However, an injury to Marquez Valdes-Scantling has left the Niners in a difficult spot, with Ricky Pearsall already sidelined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Zakelj might be insurance if Dominick Puni can\u2019t play or doesn\u2019t make it through four quarters. Puni\u2019s knee injury has hampered his play in a way that the team may not have a choice but to shut him down and let Puni heal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fred Warner was officially placed on the Injured Reserve list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers made a flurry of moves ahead of Sunday Night Football. George Kittle has officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":314574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[77192,64272,1246,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-314573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","9":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-injuries","10":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115397733160157705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}