San Francisco beat the Rams 27-7 in the NFL's first regular-season game in Australia. George Kittle, back from last season's Achilles tear, played extensively with no setback. Rookie WR De'Zhaun Stribling was carted off in the second quarter with a left ankle injury after briefly returning from an earlier tweak; Kyle Shanahan said his Achilles was intact. TE2 Jake Tonges was also carted off and is being evaluated for a knee injury Shanahan called "not good." Rams WR Puka Nacua played through his psoas injury, catching 5 of 9 targets for 74 yards in the loss.
Fantasy take
Kittle logged a full route tree Week 1 without a setback, the first live confirmation his Achilles holds up in-game. With Kittle healthy, backup TE competition behind him drops to Luke Farrell and Brayden Willis; the Tonges MCL evaluation is a depth question, not a lost-touches question, since he wasn't projected for volume once Kittle returned anyway. Stribling was a rookie WR without an established role in a five-man room behind Kirk, Robinson, Cowing, Pearsall, and Evans, so a second-quarter cart-off removes a name that hadn't yet shown up as fantasy-relevant.
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