SEATTLE -- After installing their offensive game plan last week, it would have surprised nobody in the San Francisco 49ers locker room if a tight end came down with the game-winning catch Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks .

The assumption, based on how George Kittle -centric that game plan was, would have been that it was No. 85 hauling it in.

Alas, after Kittle departed with 10:06 left in the second quarter with a hamstring injury that will require an MRI in the next 24 hours, it was third-string tight end Jake Tonges who saved the day.

Before Sunday, Tonges never had so much as made a catch in a regular-season NFL game and had been targeted just once since entering the league as an undrafted free agent out of California in 2022. Yet when quarterback Brock Purdy found himse

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