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Source: 49ers to suspend Campbell for final three games of 2024 season originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
Linebacker De’Vondre Campbell’s 2024 NFL season appears to be over.
The 49ers plan to suspend Campbell for the season’s final three games, a source confirmed to NBC Sports Bay Area on Monday morning after NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport first reported the news.
Source: The 49ers plan to suspend LB De’Vondre Campbell for the final three games of the season without pay for conduct detrimental to the team, confirming @RapSheet report. Campbell declined to enter the 49ers’ game Thursday night vs. Rams as a backup.
— Matt Maiocco (@MaioccoNBCS) December 16, 2024
Campbell’s 49ers tenure came into question after San Francisco’s 12-6 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday night when the nine-year NFL veteran refused to play in the game at Levi’s Stadium.
By suspending Campbell rather than releasing him, the 49ers are preventing him from signing with another NFL team.
While NBC Sports Bay Area’s Donte Whitner and the rest of the NFL world called for the 49ers to cut Campbell, coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters last Friday that the team needed time to work through all the possible outcomes.
“We’re working through the semantics of exactly how to deal with it,” Shanahan said on Friday’s conference call. “But you guys heard from me last night. You guys heard from our players. His actions from the game is not something you can do to your team or your teammates and still be a part of our team.”
Tight end George Kittle and cornerback Charvarius Ward were the most outspoken 49ers players immediately after Thursday night’s loss.
“Look, if you’re on the roster and you suit up, you’re expected to play,” Kittle told reporters Thursday. “I think anyone in this building that got asked to go in, I would say 100 percent of everybody would die to get on that football field. People are going through random things off the field, I can’t speak on that. Whatever his decision was, it…
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Publish date : 2024-12-16 15:42:00
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