San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle is one of six players nominated for the FedEx Air & Ground Player of Week 14 Award after posting six catches on six targets for 151 yards and touchdown versus the Chicago Bears. Kittle's 151 receiving yards are a season-high and allowed him to eclipse a significant NFL benchmark. With his third catch of the day against the Bears, the eighth-year pro became the third tight end in NFL history to register 500-or-more receptions and 7,000-or-more receiving yards in his first eight NFL seasons, joining former tight end Antonio Gates and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
"He is a baller. You get the ball in his hands like that, and he can get all the YAC after and he's just so explosive," quarterback Brock Purdy said. "For where he's at in his career, to continue to put up those kind of numbers and be that dominant, it's a pretty sweet thing. Obviously, I would like to get him the ball in space and let him do his thing, and that's what he did today."
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The FedEx Air and Ground NFL Players of the Week Awards are new and improved for the 2024 season. In addition to quarterbacks and running backs, wide receivers and tight ends are now eligible to be recognized as the FedEx Air & Ground NFL Players of the Week. Unlike years past, fans are no longer restricted to selecting one top air and one top ground performer of the week. Instead, fans can vote for their top two performers from a group of six standout offensive players from the full week of NFL action.
Voting for weekly nominees is open each week of the regular season from Monday morning to Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. ET at NFL.com/FedEx. Fans can also vote on X (formerly Twitter) via the NFL published polls at @NFL and on the NFL Mobile App.
While the criteria for the players has changed, the charitable driving force of the program remains the same. For the 2024-25 season, FedEx will once again proudly work with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to make donations of $2,000 in the names of the two winning players ($4,000 total) to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the country every week.
