De’Vondre Campbell flat-out instructed the 49ers teaching employees that he didn’t need to play when the group wanted him throughout the third quarter of San Francisco’s 12-6 loss to the Rams on “Thursday Night Football.”
Campbell walked off the sphere and into the 49ers’ locker room within the third quarter, and after the sport, San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan revealed to reporters that the linebacker instructed the teaching employees that he had no real interest in taking the sphere.
“He said he didn’t want to play today,” Shanahan instructed reporters.
“When someone says that, you move on. You don’t deal with that anymore,” Shanahan added. “That’s somebody who doesn’t want to play football, that’s pretty simple. I think our team and myself, we know how we feel about that. I don’t think we need to talk about him anymore.”
The 49ers coach additionally added that Campbell, an All-Professional in 2021, didn’t give him a purpose why he didn’t need to be on the sphere.
It presumably may very well be associated to the return of Dre Greenlaw, who had not performed because the Tremendous Bowl when he suffered an Achilles damage whereas operating onto the sphere.
His return relegated Campbell to a reserve function for the sport.
Campbell had began 12 of 13 video games for San Francisco going into Thursday evening, however his taking part in time decreased over the earlier three weeks, and he didn’t file something on the stat sheet towards the Rams.
No matter frustration Campbell may need been feeling, his determination to refuse to play and as a substitute stroll off the sphere didn’t sit nicely with 49ers gamers, together with cornerback Charvarius Ward and tight finish George Kittle.
“It’s just dumb. It’s just stupid. It’s very immature,” Kittle instructed reporters. “I just don’t see how you could do something like that to your team.”
“I mean he’s a professional and he’s been playing for a long time. If he didn’t want to play he shouldn’t have dressed out,” Ward mentioned to reporters. “He could have told them that before the game.”
“[He’s] probably going to get cut soon, so it is what it is with that,” Ward added.
