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Man says 49ers draft pick Dre Greenlaw saved his daughter from potential assault

Shortly after the 49ers selected Arkansas linebacker Dre Greenlaw in the fifth round of the 2019 NFL Draft on Saturday, a man wrote in a viral thread of tweets that the 49ers' new linebacker once saved his daughter from a potential sexual assault in college.

Twitter user Gerry Dales said that Greenlaw knew his daughter from high school, and encountered her at a party during her freshman year at the University of Arkansas.

"She knew very few people at the party, and also didn't have a ton of experience drinking," Dales wrote. "Someone slipped something into her drink when she wasn't paying attention.