George Kittle dealt with plenty of emotional recovery after the 49ers’ heart-wrenching Super Bowl LVIII loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in February.
But more than that, the notoriously physical Kittle had to rehab several injuries this offseason — a fractured rib, issues with his shoulder and toe, and a core muscle tear that required surgery.
On Tuesday’s “Bussin’ With The Boys” podcast, San Francisco’s star tight end revealed he lost almost 30 pounds following the Super Bowl, a significant blow to his typical 250-pound build.
“I couldn’t lift,” Kittle explained. “I couldn’t do any upper body because of my shoulder and my rib, and I couldn’t do lower [body] because of my core surgery. … I didn’t lift from the Super Bowl until like almost mid-March.
“I went a month without doing anything, I wasn’t supposed to do anything.”
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