George Kittle, Charvarius Ward and company had plenty to say about the veteran linebacker walking off the field in the third quarter.
, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan revealed that veteran linebacker De'Vondre Campbell refused to enter the game in the third quarter"I didn’t really hear anything about it until I got in the locker room, so it’s all brand new information to me," Kittle. "Look, if you’re on the roster, and you suit up, you’re expected to play. I think anyone in this building who got asked to go in, I would say 100% of everybody would die to get on the football field.
"I'm not very happy about it. I wish I had heard about it on the field, but I didn’t. Is that the reason we lost? Absolutely not. But it’s hard to win football games when someone doesn’t want to play football. Especially when you’re suited up. ... I’ve never been around anybody that’s ever done that, and I hope I’m never around anybody that does that again."
Campbell, who signed a one-year deal with the 49ers in March, started 12 games at linebacker this season. He entered Thursday night as the 49ers' second-leading tackler this season, logging 79 tackles while playing 90% of the defensive snaps. Campbell was replaced as San Francisco's starting linebacker by Dre Greenlaw, who played Thursday night for the first timein Super Bowl LVIII. Some 49ers teammates believe Campbell won't have a job in their locker room moving forward—not even as a backup.
"He’s a professional. He’s been playing for a long time. If he didn’t want to play, he shouldn’t have dressed," cornerback Charvarius Ward. "It definitely hurt the team. ... For him to do that, that’s some selfish stuff to me, in my opinion. He’s probably going to get cut soon, so it is what it is with that.
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