The Greatest 49er TE of All-time

Anyone who says it's Kittle must be a brand new bandwagon fan.

Originally posted by D0PEMAN:

Anyone who says it's Kittle must be a brand new bandwagon fan.

bandwagon???? lol. 3-0 isnt bandwagon worthy after sucking ass for like 5 years prior. just say younger fans.

It's Brent Jones for now. If Kittle stands up during championship runs, with his blocking and receiving skills, he would be right in there.

Greatest tight end is Jimmy Garapollo.

As I see it, receiver skills and blocking are about equally important in a tight end. It's rare to find a TE who excels at both. For example, Brent Jones was a fantastic receiver, but not always a great blocker (just my opinion). It seemed that Delanie could be a receiver or a blocker, but could never do both at the same time. Kittle shows potential to be great at both, which is very encouraging. It's still early in his career to hang any all-time labels on him, obviously.

That said, I find it silly to compare players from different eras, since every sport changes so much over time. But I understand that fans love to do it.

Kittle
Jones
Frank
Davis

It's Vernon. In his prime he was absolutely dominant.

Vernon Davis is our best TE of all time. Jones was good, but benefited from being a part of a much more prolific passing offense and Davis's numbers are significantly better.

Kittle will need several more years of production to be in the conversation.

Last name Walker, first name Aaron

Originally posted by kezarvet49:

George Kittle has the opportunity to be considered the greatest 49er TE of all-time. How could I not love him? We're both born on October 9. Who is the greatest? In my opinion not Russ Francis, not Brent Jones, not Monte Stickles, not Charle Young, not Vance McDonald, not Vernon Davis, not Delanie Walker, not John Frank. The best 49er TE is someone most NIner fans unfortunately never saw play. In fact, Kittle is his carbon copy. Great receiver and even better after the catch. 6'4", 226. The best TE of all time was TED KWALICK. Check out the similarities between Kwalick and Kittle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYxoCA7CVgw

Of course its kwalick. /thread.

Originally posted by Waterbear:
Kittle will be the best... But I've noticed people criminally underrate VD on this forum. He has better numbers accross the board on much worse teams and QB's throwing to him then Jones.

And I like Jones. I think he was the more consistent catcher of the football but people act like VD wasn't a top 3 TE for most of his career. Was Jones ever top 3? I don't think so.

While I actually agree for football reasons that Jones wasn't as good as VD (nowhere near, actually), considering Jones was a 4-time Pro Bowler, and only 4 TEs make the Pro Bowl each year, I'm not sure why you would say that as if it's some kind of obvious rhetorical question.

The reason Jones wasn't as good is he was a piss-poor blocker. Also, when he started out, teams were frequently not even bothering to cover him because the safeties were so focused on John Taylor and Jerry Rice.

Kwalick was once selected to the 1st string All-Pro, made the Pro Bowl 3X, and played on a Super Bowl winner for the Raiders.

Vernon Davis never made All-Pro, and played in 2 Pro Bowls. He also played on one Super Bowl winning team.

Greg Clark! FTW

So good the 49ers placed Wesley Walls in the expansion draft for a division rival!!!

Originally posted by Viperboy:
Brent jones
Dave parks
George kittle ( with a bullet )

Honorable mention
Vernon Davis
Ted Kwalik
Russ Francis

Loved Parks but he played WR for Niners. Didn't switch to TE until he was traded to NO

Kittle has the most talent out of any 49er TE in history. He is already the best.