Veteran Center Kilgore Wants to Stay With 49ers

Daniel Kilgore can enter free agency this year, but he'd rather stay with the 49ers.He has at least one valuable card he can play in his bid to stay with San Francisco, the only franchise he's played for: the blessing of quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo.Garoppolo led the 49ers to five straight wins to close the 2017 season, and he and the veteran center worked well together."I think there's a special relationship between center and quarterback," Garoppolo said recently. "We spend so much time together. Me and him got on the same page almost instantly when I first got here. He made my job a lot easier, helping me with the run game and all that stuff. I think we complement each other very well, so hopefully we'll work something out."Kilgore just completed a three-year deal with the 49ers worth just over $6 million. He earned about $1.4 million in 2017, and would likely require a raise to stay with the team – if general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan want to keep him. But, there's plenty of salary-cap space to do it.Kilgore – energized by the team's surge with Garoppolo in 2017 – certainly wants to stay with the team that took him in the fifth round of...