{"id":13879,"date":"2017-03-08T16:48:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=13879"},"modified":"2017-03-08T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:39:40","slug":"kyle-juszczyk-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/03\/08\/kyle-juszczyk-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kyle Juszczyk To Sign With San Francisco 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to ESPN insider Adam Schefter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JuszKy00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Juszczyk<\/a> is expected to sign with the San Francisco 49ers. NFL Network analyst Ian Rapoport later revealed that the contract is a four-year deal worth $21 million. Juszczyk\u00a0spent the first four seasons of his career with the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let&#8217;s try this again: Ravens Pro-Bowl FB Kyle Juszczyk plans to sign with the 49ers assuming no last-minute negotiating snags, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/839591952811192325\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Report: Kyle Juszczyk To Sign With San Francisco 49ers<\/h2>\n<p>Kyle Juszczyk is a peculiar player. Despite being a conventional fullback, he&#8217;s also proven to be a pretty effective runner and receiver. Over the last three seasons, Juszczyk compiled 769 yards and five touchdowns. In 2014, Juszczyk caught 41 passes for 321 yards and four touchdowns, all career highs.<\/p>\n<p>While fullback is a position that is becoming less and less popular in the NFL, there&#8217;s still a place for Juszczyk. Teams like the Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots still employ the use of the fullback, and the fact that he can catch passes out of the backfield only helps his cause.<\/p>\n<p>Way back in 2013,\u00a0Juszczyk was considered the best fullback in the draft. He didn&#8217;t receive an invite to the NFL&#8217;s scouting combine, but at his pro day, he had a ball. He recorded a 4.7 40 yard dash and he managed to record 24 repetitions on the bench press, and he recorded a 4.19 shuttle time. Not bad for someone that&#8217;s just a fullback.<\/p>\n<p>Juszczyk went from special teams ace to starting fullback over the course of a year, and behind him, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/ForsJu00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Forsett<\/a> was able to have his only 1,000 yard season. Despite only being a fullback,\u00a0Juszczyk brings a lot to the table. He&#8217;s a great blocker, he can play special teams, and he&#8217;s a solid receiver out of the backfield.<\/p>\n<p>Plus,\u00a0Juszczyk is only 25 years old. He&#8217;s a young player that&#8217;s already accomplished quite a bit for a fullback. The quarterbacks and pass rushers get all the press, but it takes all 53 players on the active rosters to win a Super Bowl. Who knows what Kyle\u00a0Juszczyk could bring to the table in 2017?<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/630522262\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 65.656566% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/630522262?et=xVVwjEVNT1xWXvVTev4etA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=W1se0pYb5hT6hQbZOxQX3KrLGS9lEfMj2jtx0phBuQM=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last three seasons, Kyle Juszczyk compiled 769 yards and five touchdowns despite the declining importance of the fullback position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1347,"featured_media":13880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,31],"tags":[174,61,1037,40,52],"class_list":["post-13879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-49ers","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-football","tag-kyle-juszczyk","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"modified_by":"Al Preziosi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}