49ers’ George Kittle shares encouraging update after successful Achilles surgery

SANTA CLARA — George Kittle always is a positive force and the 49ers All-Pro’s post-surgery update gives him even more reason to remain uplifted. “Overall I’m fantastic,” Kittle said. “Surgery went really, really good. Surgeon was incredibly happy with it. Little background into it: Best case scenario when you tear an Achilles, is that you tear it up high by your soleus, which is what I did.  “I had a clean tear, they didn’t have to drill into my heel, and where the repair was, is where there is more blood flow and so it takes some time off of the recovery time.” Kittle went down in the second quarter of the team’s NFC Wild Card Round win over the Philadelphia Eagles. The tight end described the moment when he knew it was a serious injury. “Exactly when it happened, it felt like someone put a shotgun on my calf and pulled the trigger,” Kittle said. “The second it happened I knew exactly what it was. A Philadelphia trainer came down, very nice guy and said, ‘What do you need?’ And I was like, ‘I’m going to need a cart. Not going to be able to walk this one...