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Tight ends won the world of football this week and for good reason.
After all, the Sports Position Group has put together a three-day summit filled with fun activities such as enjoying concerts that include the best acts in the country. Taylor SwiftLuke Combs and Kane Brown.
But it’s not all plays and there’s no work on more than 80 tight ends who have traveled to Nashville. The whole reason why TEU was put together George KittleTravis Kelce and Greg Olsen were to elevate the game for all those who attended.
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San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) is watching at the San Francisco 49ers mini camp on June 10, 2025 at the SAP performance facility in Santa Clara, California. (Matthew Huang/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Yes, activities improve connections and friendships from the field. But the improvement in this area is what this group strives to do every year.
On Tuesday morning, there was a typical example inside the Vanderbilt University conference room, and just like during the season with coaches, all tight ends had meetings with elites of past and present games.
After Kelse And the latest Denver Bronco Evan Engram passed part of the meeting, and before Olsen and Jeremy Shockey had a Q&A session, Fox News Digital was given enough privileges to sit at Kittle’s time in front of the room.
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message? “Things were needed to be a great te.”
If Kittle wants something to be soaked into every tight end in the room before heading to their respective training camps, it knows what the gold standard is for playing tight end positions.
John Embry, Kittle’s old San Francisco 49ers The tight end coach, who has been advised today, left a notecard in the player’s locker with a novel about how to “keep the standard for tight end rooms.”
Kittle asked Embry to make some for the Nashville group. And now the NFL’s highest paying tight end read the first line, so everyone was staring directly at the projector screen.
George Kittle, #85, and San Francisco 49ers tight end/assistant head coach John Embley before his match against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Tear Bank Field on November 21, 2021 in Jacksonville, Florida. The 49ers defeated the Jaguar 30-10. (Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images)
“Be physical with everything you do,” Kittle said as he went down the list from Embry. “Use the ball and let the first man get away. He always says, “Don’t work on the first man. You’re not allowed to work on one man. If you work on one man, you’ll be fined.”
The other two main points were “Don’t let the boundaries go away” and “Run the game and finish between your man and the ball.”
Of course, no matter what position you play in the NFL, you need physicality. Tight ends are used in a variety of ways, so they must be very athletic to fish, and at the same time, as the tacklers miss out on.
However, Kittle moved down the note card to one of the more important information. “You need to know more than anyone other than QB.” He previously walked into the 49ers locker room after the first half of his first preseason game in the NFL, so he made a good anecdote to explain why it’s so important.
Kittle thought he had done well, but Embry saw things differently.
“I’ve never got my A – I’ve ripped more in my life,” Kittle said. “It was the only time that Embry tore my A through my entire life. Just for your rookie, this is your job and this is your chance to influence you for the rest of your life.
Kittle hit the playbook violently and realized that tight ends needed to “know the whole concept” of the play.
After all, Embree’s next note card explained why it’s important to know what everyone is doing in every play.
“Our job is to catch blocks, passes and passes [protect]and play special teams,” Kittle reads the room.
Tight ends really have to do it all. Whether they block the elite defensive side with pass pro or run the perfect route to make a big profit, the NFL will separate themselves by being able to trust a man’s coach to get the job done.
Reading it in the classroom is one thing, but Kittle loved the final part of his speech. It shows highlights for everyone in the room.
Of course, he had to quit his big play, but he started with the basic play of Kelce, Kansas City Chiefs Superstar.
Kansas City Chief Sticker End Travis Kelse (AP Photo/Ed Zurga, file)
“Become vertical,” or get a catch and move up quickly is something that all pass catchers are left to the NFL. Kittle emphasized the use of Kelce in the quick first step, “turning a 4-yard pass into a 10-yard gain.”
The Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl Champion Dallas Gaedart also introduced Embry’s notes that he “doesn’t run out of boundaries” as he pushed the corners of the Green Bay Packers separately three times while running for a touchdown.
From Sam Laporta’s 50-plus yard run blocking to Andrews, Isaiah’s potential, to Trey McBride being a reliable target for quarterbacks, in real time, Kittle went through a gauntlet of plays introducing tight end college.
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“You go to the classroom and hear George and Travis talk about things and they see everything a little differently,” Gaedart said. “It’s a great way to learn a bit and improve your game a little bit every time you come here because you can find something that correlates with them.”
Engram added: “We have 80 people here, to help others get better. We’re supposed to compete with each other in the end, but not the nature of these people. Everyone is here to make each other better, share the information, preliminary knowledge and the coolest part for me.”
All the players in the room share the same passion and goals in football games, and they all want to be the best they can to help their team.
To do so, Kittle’s message to the group is something they really should aim for, even if they have in the league for years.
Tight end George Kittle, #85 of the San Francisco 49ers, will warm up before an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Rams at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on December 12, 2024. (Brook Sutton/Getty Images)
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“I think you should play in a certain way,” Kittle told Fox News Digital. “I think people should want to play in a certain way. They should want to do everything right. The tight end position, you block, you’ll pass by [protect]you catch the ball, run around and get a touchdown. You do everything, so why aren’t you better at everything? That’s what I want to show off.
“That also means a lot when you have a platform to stand in front of the tight end of the league and hype the people sitting there. A little positive reinforcement comes a long way and says, “Hey, this is noticed by everyone in the league. This is a great play.
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