The San Francisco 49ers have suspended linebacker De’Vondre Campbell for the ultimate three video games of the 2024 common season after he refused to enter the sport in a 12-6 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday, the staff introduced Monday.
“We have suspended De’Vondre Campbell Sr. for 3 video games attributable to conduct detrimental to the staff,” mentioned 49ers basic supervisor John Lynch said in a statement. “We can have no additional touch upon the matter.”
The 49ers have been working with the NFL to find out the utmost punishment they might give Campbell so they would not must launch him and watch him play for one more staff, Jay Glazer, NFL Insider on FOX, reported Sunday.
Campbell, whom the 49ers signed to a one-year, $5 million deal within the offseason, began 12 of the 49ers’ first 13 video games and performed in additional than 90 p.c of their defensive snaps. However, he was benched for Thursday’s recreation as veteran linebacker Dre Greenlaw returned from an Achilles tendon harm he suffered within the staff’s Super Bowl loss in February.
It was initially shared that the 49ers needed to place Campbell within the recreation in the course of the third quarter as Greenlaw handled some soreness in his Achilles tendon. However, the tense scenario with Campbell had developed earlier.
“(The 49ers) began to see within the second quarter that he refused to go in,” Glazer mentioned on “FOX NFL Sunday.” “So, it was John Lynch who truly went down there within the (third) quarter and tackled De’Vondre. … It was Lynch who despatched him to the locker room.”
De’Vondre Campbell leaves the sphere within the 49ers’ 12-6 loss to the Rams
As Glazer mentioned, Campbell walked off the sphere with a towel draped over his head and entered the locker room earlier than the sport ended. Shanahan mentioned he did not ship Campbell to the locker room and did not know why he left the sphere.
“Once I discovered he wasn’t enjoying, I moved on to folks we might rely on,” Shanahan mentioned.
Campbell’s actions have been extensively criticized within the soccer world and his personal teammates even criticized him.
“He’s knowledgeable,” 49ers cornerback Charvarius Ward mentioned after the sport. “He’s been enjoying a very long time. If he did not wish to play, he should not have dressed up. He might have instructed him earlier than the sport. So I believe it was egocentric. It positively harm the staff. Dre went down and we wanted a linebacker. . .. For him to do one thing like that, for my part it is crap. He’ll most likely get reduce quickly.
George Kittle referred to as Campbell’s actions “silly” and “immature.”
“He’s an individual making a egocentric determination,” Kittle mentioned. “I’ve by no means handled anybody who has ever performed this, and I hope I by no means meet anybody who does it once more.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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