The 49ers didn’t have many highs in 2024, but Week 12 vs. the Rams—when Dre Greenlaw came back—was one of them. The defense looked alive again.
And Kyle Shanahan noticed.
Kyle Shanahan sat down with The San Francisco Standard’s Tim Kawakami and laid it all out—Purdy’s contract, how the roster had to shift as early as 2023, and why Week 12 bugged him. That was the game where Dre Greenlaw came back, and the energy was different because of it. Shanahan noticed, and he wasn’t thrilled it took that long:
I had a meeting at my house where I had all the vets over at OTAs.