49ers’ Juszczyk is the NFL playoffs’ breakout star … fashion designer Kristin Juszczyk, that is

SANTA CLARA — Fullback Kyle Juszczyk beamed with pride as he stood at his locker Tuesday and talked about the breakout star of this year’s NFL playoffs: his wife, Kristin. Or, more specifically, the custom jackets she is hand-making out of replica jerseys. As their viral images spread on social media, Juszczyk spent the 49ers’ wild-card bye diving into the comments and giving his wife credit for her fashion design.

“It was super important because I’m so proud of her,” said Juszczyk, the 49ers’ Pro Bowl and All-Pro fullback. “She’s extremely talented. The things she’s putting out there are one of a kind and I just wanted to make sure she got that credit.

“At first, the announcers are saying, ‘Taylor Swift can get Nike to do anything. ’ I was like, ‘Ack, come on, we have to let these people know it was all Kristin. ’ ” Wild-card weekend saw Taylor Swift wearing a Juszczyk-made puffer coat in honor of her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

Brittany Mahomes had one similar as a nod to her husband, Patrick. On the sideline Sunday before the Detroit Lions’ playoff win, Michigan-born actor Taylor Lautner — a former beau of Swift’s — donned a leather Juszczyk-crafted jacket mirroring the jersey of defensive end Adam Hutchinson. “Some of those jackets, she probably put 20 hours alone into a single jacket,” Kyle Juszczyk said.

“I’m waking up at 3 or 4 in the morning and she’s not in bed; she’s downstairs working. She’s really, really been grinding and I’m so happy it’s paid off. ” Arriving in her jacket made by Kristin Juszczyk — Kyle Juszczyk (@JuiceCheck44) Last month, Juszczyk’s jackets hit the mainstream as she made a puffer vest for Olympic gymnast Simone Biles in support of her husband, safety Jonathan Owens of the Green Bay Packers, who will visit the 49ers in Saturday’s wild-card playoff game at Levi’s Stadium.

Wide receiver Deebo Samuel said he asked Juszczyk for a piece but didn’t know what she designed for him before a puffer vest she made for him arrived, and he proudly strutted into FedEx Field on New Year’s Eve wearing it. For years, she has been designing her own game-day clothing cleverly crafted out of her husband’s replica No. 44 jerseys.

“An honor of a lifetime,” Kristin Juszczyk wrote in an Instagram post charting her Chiefs’ jackets for Swift and Mahomes. Coach Kyle Shanahan said he and his wife discussed Juzczyk’s viral jackets after seeing them over the weekend. “That was cool.

She’s awesome. She does that stuff all the time,” he said. “My daughter likes to make clothes since she was like 7 years old.

So she’s always sending her some stuff too that they try to make. ” As for when her husband will show up in his own custom-designed jacket made downstairs at their South Bay home, Kyle Juszczyk replied: “My time will come. She has some things in the work.

We’re waiting for that right moment. … If I told you, would it be a surprise. Honestly, I’m not even 100 percent sure what she has planned this week.

She’s brought the heat every single week. I’ll be surprised as much as you are. ” Related Articles Business is booming so much that multiple companies are seeking to hire her.

One company drew a special shoutout from her husband: FedEx. That’s because Lautner’s self-requested jacket made it to him before the Lions’ first home playoff game in 30 years amid a winter storm across much of the country. “Taylor Lautner reached out to her and asked if she would make it,” Kyle Juszczyk said.

“He was so awesome through the whole process, saying: ‘I understand you have a lot on your plate and if you can’t make it happen, it’s totally cool. ’ He’s been awesome. But she really wanted to get it done.

That whole story was crazy in itself, with the FedEx being delayed, the truck breaking down, then they sent a personal carrier to delivering it onto the field. That whole thing should be a Super Bowl commercial; shoutout to FedEx. ” Taylor Lautner in the house!!! 🦁 — Sunday Night Football on NBC (@SNFonNBC).