Report: Lynch confronted, sent Campbell to 49ers’ locker room

Report: Lynch confronted, sent Campbell to 49ers locker room originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

John Lynch reportedly had no time for linebacker De’Vondre Campbell’s antics on the sideline Thursday night.

San Francisco president of football operations/general manager confronted Campbell on 49ers bench when he refused to play in the third quarter of Defeat of the 49ers by 12-6 to the Los Angeles Rams, league insider Jay Glazer reported on “FOX NFL Sunday,” and it was Lynch who sent the despondent defender to the locker room.

“John Lynch actually went there in the (third) quarter and confronted him and said, ‘You don’t want to get in the game? Do you refuse?’ “Glazer said. “Yes. It was Lynch who sent him to the locker room.

“By the way, I had players call me afterwards and say, ‘Hey, we heard you talk about this alter ego John Lynch, this character from 47 Red. Man, we saw it. That guy is crazy.’ They all saw it firsthand. hand”.

Campbell appeared in all 13 of the 49ers’ games this season before Dre Greenlaw returned from an Achilles injury on Thursday to face the Rams. When Greenlaw exited the game in the third quarter with some soreness, Campbell refused to play when 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan asked him to come on.

Shanahan told reporters Friday that San Francisco is “working on the semantics” of Parting ways with Campbell. after the incident, and NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported Sunday that the 49ers expected to suspend the veteran linebacker instead of releasing him.

Lynch and Shanahan have helped the 49ers build a culture admired by many in the NFL, with toughness and determination to win as cornerstones. And when the GM saw that a player was going against those standards, he took matters into his own hands.

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