During the San Francisco 49ers Football on Thursday evenings After a loss to the Los Angeles Rams that all but put the nail in the coffin for the 49ers’ playoff chances this year, San Francisco linebacker and former Green Bay Packer De’Vondre Campbell made an incredibly selfish decision: not to play in the game because he didn’t feel like it.

According to head coach Kyle Shanahan, Campbell made the coaching staff aware that he did not want to be available to play. When Shanahan tried to bring Campbell into the game in the third quarter for Dre Greenlaw, recently activated from IR for an Achilles tendon injury he suffered in last year’s Super Bowl, Campbell went to the locker room instead.

After the game, Shanahan said Campbell was “someone who doesn’t want to play football” and “I don’t think we need to talk about him anymore.” It appears the Campbell era in San Francisco has come to an end. As 49ers cornerback Charvarius Ward put it, “He’ll probably be out.”

Campbell hasn’t made many friends since signing his mega-contract with the Packers after his only All-Pro season. On the way out of Green Bay, he said he was “severely abused” (which he also claimed after leaving the Atlanta Falcons) after he voluntarily missed the Packers because he was “playing off injuries.” was. After missing several games during the 2023 season, Campbell returned to the field at the end of the regular season as a cover linebacker – which was by no means a strength of his game, but did limit the amount of physicality he had to endure down down down.

Prior to this week, Campbell had started 12 of the 49ers’ 13 games. With the activation of Greenlaw, who has started for San Francisco since 2019, Campbell was pushed out of the lineup. Apparently that was just too much for the 31-year-old.