Source: 49ers reach one-year deal with WR Christian Kirk
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For the second time in per week the San Francisco 49ers added a veteran to their large receiver room, agreeing to phrases on a one-year deal with Christian Kirka supply instructed ESPN.
Kirk spent final season with the Houston Texans after a three-year stint with the Jacksonville Jaguars and his first 4 seasons with the Arizona Cardinals. The deal is for as much as $6 million, sources instructed NFL reporter Jordan Schultz, who first reported the settlement.
For the Niners, Kirk’s addition is the newest to a receiver room that’s amidst important renovation. The 49ers signed Mike Evans to a three-year, $42.5 million deal within the opening hours of free company final week.
The addition of Evans and Kirk gives the Niners some confirmed manufacturing on the place with Jauan Jennings, Brandon Aiyuk, Kendrick Bourne and Skyy Moore both already touchdown elsewhere or anticipated to within the coming weeks or months.
Jennings is an unrestricted free agent after he and the Niners couldn’t come to an settlement on an extension final offseason. He has but to signal with one other crew after the primary week of free company.
Aiyuk is all however sure to be gone with normal supervisor John Lynch saying in January that he has performed his last snap as a Niner. Lynch indicated that transaction would come after the brand new league yr begins, which occurred final Wednesday.
Because the brand new league yr is underway, the 49ers can launch Aiyuk at any level and designate him a post-June 1 lower. That would permit them to unfold their lifeless cash cap hit over two seasons.
So far, the 49ers have held on to Aiyuk as Lynch has stated the crew would proceed hoping for a commerce to materialize. Because trades cannot be given the post-June 1 designation, the 49ers must be keen to tackle the complete lifeless cash hit of $29.585 million in 2026 in the event that they did discover a commerce companion for Aiyuk earlier than June 1.
Still, Aiyuk’s departure from the Niners stays a when, not an if. Meanwhile, Bourne (Arizona) and Moore (Green Bay Packers) have already discovered their subsequent NFL houses in free company. As it stands, the Niners have Evans, Kirk, Ricky Pearsall, Demarcus Robinson, Jacob Cowing and Jordan Watkins as their main choices at receiver.
San Francisco has six picks within the first 4 rounds in April’s NFL draft at its disposal if it desires to proceed including on the place.
Kirk is coming off a 28-catch, 239-yard, one-touchdown season in Houston during which he missed 4 video games and battled hamstring accidents for a lot of the season. He additionally had an eight-catch, 144-yard efficiency in an AFC wild-card win in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelerswhich set a Texans postseason franchise report.
In San Francisco, Kirk figures to work into the combination as a slot receiver possibility with Evans on the ‘X’ place and Pearsall because the ‘Z.’ Kirk, 29, is also an possibility within the return sport following Moore’s departure, though he hasn’t returned any kicks or punts since 2023.
A second-round decide by the Cardinals in 2018, Kirk has 432 receptions for five,415 yards and 30 touchdowns in eight seasons.
ESPN’s DJ Bien-Aime contributed to this report.
