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A grateful father thanks 49ers draftee for the time he guided his daughter out of harm’s way

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Mere seconds after the 49ers drafted Arkansas linebacker Dre Greenlaw in the fifth round of last week’s NFL draft, ESPN’s talking heads leapt into action parsing his game. Said one expert: “He’s very instinctive against the pass.”

If only they knew then.

Greenlaw came to the 49ers with an untold story. That can be a bad thing — witness the recent outbreak of bad behavior on the part of NFL employees. In this case, a grateful father took to social media to let people know the kind of principled young man Greenlaw is.