Charvarius Ward didn’t utterly rule out a return to San Francisco subsequent season, however after coping with some of the painful years of his life, the 49ers cornerback appeared like a person in search of a contemporary begin.
Ward, 28, is headed into unrestricted free company in March after spending the previous three seasons with the 49ers.
The tragic passing of his daughter Amani Pleasure simply shy of her second birthday solid a darkish cloud over Ward’s ultimate season within the Bay Space, he informed reporters.
Pleasure handed away after a battle with coronary heart points, based on ESPN, and the tragedy has prompted Ward to have “a lot of trauma in California.”
“I had a lot of great times, but the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, that’s probably going to ever happen to me — knock on wood — happened in California,” Ward stated. “It might probably simply deliver up dangerous reminiscences. Each time I get on a aircraft and are available again to California, Santa Clara, San Jose, and present up right here, it simply brings up dangerous reminiscences.
“I go through that every day. I go home every night by myself because my girl, she doesn’t want to come back to California because of what happened. So, it is hard being alone, and she’s my strength right now. I need her, and so her not being able to be around me if I’m in California, it’d be tough.”
Ward introduced his daughter’s dying in an Instagram put up on Oct. 29 and took time away from the staff following the tragedy.
He missed three video games earlier than coming again final month for the 49ers sport in opposition to the Payments.
Ward stated that he nonetheless offers with post-traumatic stress dysfunction.
“I be throwing up, waking up in the middle of the night all the time sweating. Stuff like that. It’s tough,” he stated.
Ward completed the 2024 season with 54 complete tackles.
There was a glimmer of optimism that he might come again with the Niners expressing a need to deliver him again.
“I’ll probably get over this [eventually], but we’ll see,” he stated.
