Jake Tande Clutch for Niners, who expect George Kittle’s magnetic resonance

Seattle – After the San Francisco 49ers installed their offensive game plan last week, no one would have surprised in their locker room if a closed wing fell with the winning capture on Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks.

However, the assumption based on how the game plan focused on George Kittle was, it would have been that the number 85 transported it.

Unfortunately, after Kittle departed with the remaining 10:06 in the second quarter with an lesion in the hamstrings that will require a magnetic resonance in the next 24 hours, it was the closed wing of the third rope, Jake Tangues, who saved the day.

Before Sunday, the languages ​​had never captured in a game of the NFL of the regular season and had been attacked only once since he entered the league as a free not recruited free agent outside California in 2022. However, when the field marshal Brock Purdy found himself fighting the ninners for a field goal in the line of 4 yards of Seattle with 1:44 Flashing languages ​​in the right corner of the annotation zone.

Purdy altó in the direction of the language, although Seattle Riq Woolen’s corner seemed ready to make the game seal interception. Instead, the tongues attacked the ball in the air, arriving in front of the wool to carry it, going down two feet and then taking a moment to realize what had just happened.

From the perspective of languages, everything happened in slow motion.

“I went up, caught it, looked at my feet, made sure I was in the limits and looked for some flags, and I was silent because we are on the road,” Tande said. “Believe [receiver] Russell Gage said: ‘You noted’. … I didn’t believe it. “

When the reality of what he later called his first touchdown winner of his career’s game, he shot and celebrated with his teammates.

It was a moment of languages, which went to high school in Los Cats, California, just 20 minutes by car from the Levi stadium, I would probably have not had if it had not been due to Kittle lesion. As the first quarter of more showed, the 49ers entered Sunday’s meeting with the Seahawks with the intention of involving Kittle in the air game. After all, since Purdy assumed the position of headline in 2022, Kittle had four TouchDown trapped in his three previous games in Seattle.

Kittle seemed ready for another great departure on Sunday, making four trapped for 25 yards, including a 5 -yard touchdown on the opening trip of San Francisco. But Kittle slowly had the field after running a route at the bottom of the Seattle lateral line in a play in which Purdy was fired by Julian Love security.

After entering the Blue Medical Store for a few minutes, Kittle went out with a baseball cap and his helmet in his hand. It was officially discarded moments later, leaving the niners to discover the best way to divide the snapshots between the languages ​​and Luke Farrell, the only two remaining healthy wings on the list.

“Losing Kittle in that game was great for us,” said coach Kyle Shanahan. “It was a large part of the game plan like you saw before. [We had] To move some boys, and those boys took a step forward, man, especially at the end, the winner of the game. [I’m] very proud of him. “

At the end of the game, it was possible to argue that the language was the receiver or closed wing available with whom Purdy had worked more in the last two years. The veteran veteran Jauan Jennings, who recently returned from a calf injury and an impasse of the contract, left the game with 14:50 to play holding her left shoulder in a play that ended with an illegal contact penalty about love. Jennings did not return and, as Kittle, it is scheduled for more images on Monday.

If Jennings loses a serious moment, he could leave the niners again, already without Brandon Aiyuk (knee) and Demarcus Robinson (suspension), with shallow depth of the receiver. Shanahan said after the game that a meeting with the free agent Kendrick Bourne could still be in sight.

“I know he hasn’t signed with anyone, so I know it’s a possibility that we can get it,” Shanahan said. “I know we are still trying. With luck, that can work.”

Tennas signed with San Francisco in 2023 after a season with the Chicago Bears. He spent time in the practice team before making the active list in 2024. But Tonges’s game time had been mainly limited to special teams, since it had appeared in 16 games with the niners in 2024, playing only 34 offensive snapshots and running a total of seven routes throughout last season.

On Sunday, the languages ​​played 31 offensive snapshots, ran 15 routes, was attacked three times and ended with three trapped for 15 yards and a touchdown.

Purdy’s TD launch to him had a probability of ending of 14.7%, the lowest of any pass in week 1 entering “Sunday Night Football” and the lowest in any end of the QB race, according to statistics of the next generation of the NFL.

“It has been a constant guy during the last year in the camp, and George falls today and then, Boom, is ready for his chance,” Purdy said. “We all love Jake. He is an intelligent child and is a brother for us, so we will continue advancing.”

For a brief moment, it seemed that the capture of the language would be a footnote again while Seattle led to the territory of San Francisco in the final moments. But with 42 seconds, the defensive wing Nick Bosa forced the Right Tackle of the Seahawks, Abe Lucas, to the Campo Marshal Sam DarnoldThe return, shaking the loose ball when Bosa fell on him to seal the victory. The Bosa play triggered a wild celebration when the Nikes opened the 1-0 season, and the languages ​​went home with the TouchDown ball that a member of the Niners team had assured for him.

It is not that languages ​​immediately knew where I would put it.

“I have to get some kind of trophy case or a shelf or something,” said Tande. “We’ll see.”