{"id":930620,"date":"2026-10-12T19:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930620\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:58:29","slug":"49ers-dre-greenlaw-suspended-by-nfl-after-being-ejected-for-headbutting-seahawks-ernest-jones-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930620\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers’ Dre Greenlaw Suspended by NFL After Being Ejected for Headbutting Seahawks’ Ernest Jones IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NFL announced Monday it suspended San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw for one game for headbutting Seattle Seahawks linebacker Ernest Jones IV.<\/p>\n

The league cited Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1 to say the incident qualified as an unsportsmanlike act.<\/p>\n

Greenlaw will appeal the punishment, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport<\/a>. Derrick Brooks, Jordy Nelson, Ron Rivera or James Thrash will oversee the appeal based on the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n

The Niners veteran was ejected in the second quarter of Sunday’s 32-29 win over the Seahawks. He found himself on Seattle’s sideline after giving a late shove out of bounds to Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold.<\/p>\n

Jones, who didn’t have his helmet on, and Greenlaw briefly exchanged words before\u00a0Greenlaw thrust his head forward:<\/p>\n

The ejection didn’t impact the outcome. <\/p>\n

The Seahawks scored 13 unanswered points in the third quarter but cooled off when it counted. San Francisco briefly took the lead when Brock Purdy hit Brandin Cooks for a seven-yard touchdown pass in the fourth. After a 40-yard field goal from Jason Myers tied the game, Eddy Pineiro provided the decisive score with a 44-yarder.<\/p>\n

Niners coach Kyle Shanahan will now have a week to prepare for the potential that Garret Wallow or another linebacker is starting in Greenlaw’s place.<\/p>\n

San Francisco faces off with the Washington Commanders in Week 6.<\/p>\n

The matchup got a little trickier with Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels returning from a dislocated elbow for Sunday’s 27-27 tie with the New York Giants. He threw for 199 yards and was the game’s leading rusher (103 yards) while scoring twice on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL announced Monday it suspended San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw for one game for headbutting Seattle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-930620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}