Report: Lynch was confronted and sent Campbell to the 49ers locker room

Report: Lynch confronted, sent Campbell to 49ers locker room originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

John Lynch reportedly had no time for sideline linebacker De’Vondre Campbell on Thursday night.

San Francisco’s president of football operations/general manager confronted Campbell on the 49ers’ sideline when he refused to play in the third quarter of the 49ers’ 12-6 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, league insider Jay Glazer reported at ” FOX NFL Sunday,” and it was Lynch who sent the dejected defender to the locker room.

“John Lynch went there in the [third] quarter and confronted him about it and said, “Don’t you want to join the game? You refuse?’ Glazer said. ‘Yes. It was Lynch who sent him to the locker room.

“By the way, I’ve had players call me and say, ‘Hey, we heard you talking about this alter ego John Lynch, this 47 Red character. Man, we saw it. That guy is crazy.’ They saw it all with their own eyes.”

Campbell played in all 13 games for the 49ers this season before Dre Greenlaw returned from an Achilles injury on Thursday to face the Rams. When Greenlaw left the game in some pain in the third quarter, Campbell refused to play when 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan asked him to go inside.

Shanahan told reporters on Friday that San Francisco is “working through the semantics” of parting ways with Campbell after the incident, and NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported on Sunday that the 49ers are expected to suspend the veteran linebacker rather than release him .

Lynch and Shanahan have helped the 49ers build a culture admired by many in the NFL, where strength and determination to win are the cornerstones. And when the GM saw a player going against these norms, he took matters into his own hands.

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