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Good morning and welcome to 49ers in 5, your daily update on everything happening with the team that you need to know.

I'm Rob Stats Guerrera. Today is Wednesday, March 18th, 26. Here's what's happening with your San Francisco 49ers.

No major news yesterday, so let's skip right to the audio portion of today's show.

George Kittle was a guest on the Bussin' with the boys podcast this week, and he had a lot to say.

In fact, the interview was about an hour and a half long, if you can believe it. But don't worry, I have listened to the whole thing and I have picked out the best part so you don't have to. First and foremost, George, how's the Achilles rehab going? I'm on and off of crutches. I got out of a boot like two weeks ago, which was thrilling because being in a boot is horrible. I'm in these awesome dad shoes with heel lifts in. I'm like I can kind of I can function on my house without crutches. So I just can't, you know, be on my feet all day. But, you know, it's coming along. The rehab's going great. My trajectory is fantastic. I think I get off of crutches in like a week or two. It was actually cool. My surgeon Eletrosch flew to see me in Nashville. He was at my barn for 45 minutes that I was exactly where he wanted me to be.

And so we're trending in the right direction.

That is all good news, obviously.

Kittle would go on to say that he was told that walking actually puts more stress on the Achilles than running.

So the transition from crutches to walking is actually bigger than the

transition from walking to running, which is something I never knew.

He also reiterated a lot of the stuff he said in the past about the tear being in a good

location and yada, yada, yada, so it seems like it's all good stuff on that front.

He also talked about why he thinks he ended up tearing the

Achilles in the first place. When I played the Colts on Monday night football, I tore like two

ligaments in my ankle and then I heard it again because I kept playing on it. And so then I was

like very lopsided or I was compensating really bad.

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