49ers, Christian Kirk agree to deal to add veteran receiver: Source

Eight-year veteran broad receiver Christian Kirk has agreed to a one-year free-agent deal with the San Francisco 49ers, a league supply informed TheAthletic on Monday.

The 49ers added receiver Mike Evans from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers final week. Jauan Jennings, their prime receiver in 2025, stays a free agent. Brandon Aiyuk stays on the roster however might be traded or launched at any time, because the workforce has made it clear he will not play once more for the 49ers.

Kirk is coming off a season with the Houston Texans wherein he struggled to produce. In 13 video games in 2025, he had simply 28 catches for 239 yards and one landing. The yardage and one landing had been each profession lows, and the 28 catches had been only one greater than his profession low, which got here in 2024 when Kirk performed in solely eight video games.

He was No. 138 amongst TheAthletic‘s Top 150 free agents and the 14th-best receiver out there.

Kirk did have a giant sport within the playoffs for the Texans within the workforce’s wild-card win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, catching eight of 9 targets for 144 yards and a landing. That was his first 100-yard sport for the reason that 2023 season. However, regardless of Texans’ star broad receiver Nico Collins lacking the workforce’s divisional spherical sport towards the New England Patriots, Kirk completed with simply two catches for 20 yards and a landing. Quarterback CJ Stroud’s struggles additionally contributed to Kirk’s ineffectiveness.

Kirk was a second-round draft pick of Texas A&M by the Arizona Cardinals in 2018. His greatest years got here from 2020 by 2022. In 2021, he led all Cardinals receivers with 77 catches for 982 yards. The subsequent 12 months, after signing with the Jacksonville Jaguars in a free company, Kirk produced his first 1,000-yard season, catching 84 passes for 1,108 yards and eight touchdowns — all profession highs.

Kirk adopted that up with a stellar 2023 marketing campaign earlier than a collarbone harm lower his 2024 season brief. The Jaguars traded him final offseason to the Texans in alternate for a seventh-round choose.

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