George Kittle says the wildest showdown in 49ers camp lore didn’t involve a rival or a headline-grabber. It was him and Kyle Shanahan, on a golf trip in Cabo, with the whole thing spiraling into a mock fight that somehow ended with the head coach in the ocean.
Kittle said the group makes the trip after every season. “After every year, we go down to Cabo to hang out,” Kittle shared.
“One, because it’s such an easy flight, and two, they have great golf courses down there that I really, really enjoy. This was probably like four or five years ago-we’re golfing with Kyle at his golf course, and I think it’s just me and my wife, and then him and his wife and their kids.”
The round came with a few drinks, and then Shanahan made his move. According to Kittle, it happened late in the round, around hole 15 or 16, when the coach decided to test him.
”I think it’s like hole 15 or 16, he was like, ‘I think I could take you in a fight.’ And I was like, ‘Really?
You think you could take me in a fight, Kyle?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, I think I could.’
And I’m like, ‘All right. Bring it.’
“And he kind of like rushes me, and I pick him up, and I put him over my shoulder, and I walked him down-because it was a par 3 on the ocean-I walked him down to the beach, and I put him in the ocean.”
Elsewhere in the 49ers conversation, one season prediction painted a rough road ahead, projecting San Francisco to go 9-8, miss the playoffs and finish third in the NFC West behind the Rams and Seahawks. The reasoning pointed to the team’s “overreliance on aging 30-something players” and the drag of “those NFL-record travel miles.”
There was also a note on Dre Greenlaw, who returned to the 49ers facility this offseason after a year away and got hugs from everybody in the building. Greenlaw, who left for the Denver Broncos in 2025, said, “It was just an unbelievable feeling, just missing the guys, missing the organization, missing just everybody,” and added, “It was just a sense of feeling like home.”
As for the player expected to make the biggest noise in training camp, the pick was Jacob Cowing. The case for him centered on speed, especially compared with what San Francisco had a season ago.
The argument was that Cowing can create problems from the slot and off the ball, where he’ll get favorable matchups against a secondary that doesn’t run well relative to him. The expectation is that he’ll be used on deep crossing routes, vertical stems, and the occasional screen or underneath route, with the result being “big plays, splash plays, and ‘oohs and ahhs’ from the crowd.”
One final note in the source material pointed to Plummer’s path in the UFL. In January 2026, he was assigned to the Orlando Storm, then broke out quickly by leading the league with 2,188 passing yards in the 2026 UFL season. He also won UFL Most Valuable Player honors after throwing 17 touchdowns and only one interception.
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