Kittle is entering the final year of the five-year, $75 million contract extension that he signed with San Francisco in 2020 and has a $22 million cap hit in 2025. Both sides have expressed a desire to keep him in San Francisco for the foreseeable future.

Yet several of those players ripe for extensions, including quarterback Brock Purdy and tight end George Kittle, had a question looming of whether or not they'd attending the club's voluntary workouts amid these ongoing negotiations.

San Francisco 49ers star TE George Kittle was reportedly absent from voluntary team workouts Tuesday amid his expiring contract.