The De’Vondre Campbell debacle is aware of no finish.
49ers defensive again Deommodore Lenoir chimed in on the refrain of condemnation Monday, calling Campbell a “most cancers to the workforce.”
“For that to occur, for him to do this, I simply misplaced all respect,” Lenoir, 25, mentioned.
Campbell’s resolution to give up on his 49ers teammates in the course of San Francisco’s Week 15 matchup in opposition to the Los Angeles Rams on “Thursday Night Football” has drawn criticism from each nook of the football-watching world.
Lenoir’s chastising comes simply someday after 49ers normal supervisor John Lynch introduced Campbell, 31, had been suspended for the rest of the season “attributable to conduct detrimental to the workforce.”
It’s been a far fall for Campbell, now in his ninth season within the league.
The Florida native was a fourth-round choose within the 2016 NFL Draft and performed the primary 4 years of his profession with the Falcons. Campbell served subsequent stints in Arizona after which Green Bay — the place he earned his first and solely All-Pro honors — earlier than the Packers launched him forward of the 2024 season.
The veteran agreed to a take care of the 49ers 5 days later.
“When he first bought signed, I used to be pondering in my head like, ‘We bought one other man that we will add to the protection, [another guy] that may contribute,’” Lenoir mentioned Monday.
Campbell began 12 video games in 2024 however was changed late within the season when 27-year-old linebacker Dre Greenlaw returned to full well being.
Greenlaw was re-injured in the course of the third quarter of the Niners loss, and Campbell was tapped to take up his place. The linebacker refused, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan informed reporters after his workforce’s 12-6 defeat.
“I imply you guys heard from me final night time, you guys heard from our gamers — [Campbell’s] actions from the sport, it’s not one thing you are able to do to your workforce or your teammates and nonetheless get to be part of our workforce,” Shanahan informed reporters the next day. “We’re working via precisely the semantics of it proper now, however we’ll deal with the scenario appropriately.”
As Lenoir put it just some days later, “If I’m harm, and the man behind me isn’t backing me up — can’t are available in or doesn’t wish to go in — I simply really feel like that’s being a most cancers to the workforce.”
Handled although it might be, resentment lingers.
