After a final touch on his eighth NFL season, George Kittle made it clear that he wanted to complete his career: with the San Francisco 49ers.

The Niners announced Tuesday that Kittle has taken a four-year contract extension, a major step forward, and he will stay in touch with the only NFL team he knows in the 2029 season. Kittle earlier told the "Bussin with Boys" podcast that the deal is worth $76.4 million.

Kate said the expansion period includes a $40 million margin, which will almost certainly lower Kittel's previously scheduled 2025 salary cap to $22,085,000. Block hits will exceed his previous highest hat with less than $10 million.

"In 2017, our first year with the 49ers, we chose a skinny tight from Iowa and we were really excited," General Manager John Lynch said in a statement. "We put high expectations, but no one knew he would be the player he is today.

“He has a great sense of pride in his role and believes that the work is one of the best close endings in the NFL.”

Kittle, 31, vowed to continue playing "until the wheels fell" in order to join him in the fifth-round draft pick for his entire career.

"My goal is to wear red and gold throughout my career," Kittel told ESPN on January 5.

Even if the extension doesn't guarantee that this will happen, there's no doubt that Kittel has a great chance of achieving a shorter-term goal: joining the 10-year club of the 49ers. The club awarded them players who played 10 seasons in San Francisco for 10 consecutive seasons and has 51 players since the team was founded in 1946. The club hasn't added anyone since 2017.

Kittel will enter his ninth season in 2025, meaning he only needs to play as an extra year before his deal can become the next member. This is what Kittle calls “my huge goal.”

If Kittel continues to move forward near his current trajectory, he should have any problems in San Francisco and beyond as he is about to get rid of one of his best seasons.

In 2024, Kittel ranked third in the receive code (1,106), second in the touchdown (eight), second in the receive code (14.2), and continues to be a key blocker for San Francisco's rushing offense. The piece earned him his sixth Pro Bowl selection and another all-professional honor (the second team, his fifth nod in the first or second all-pro).

Kittle, along with Travis Kelce (seven), Rob Gronkowski, Tony Gonzalez and Jason Witten (four each) and Travis Kelce (seven), also became one of the five close ends of five or more of the 1,000-yard reception seasons in league history. He also surpassed Gronkowski's second-largest catch yard in the first eight seasons in the NFL (7,380), just behind Kelce.

"(He) will be better over time," said defender Fred Warner. "Like wine. He's doing a job. He's been great, but the fact that he's doing the drama he's doing in his career now is amazing."