{"id":493843,"date":"2026-10-12T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493843\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:48:10","slug":"49ers-dre-greenlaw-suspended-after-headbutt-leaves-opponent-bleeding-san-francisco-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493843\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers\u2019 Dre Greenlaw suspended after headbutt leaves opponent bleeding | San Francisco 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw was suspended for one game after headbutting Seattle\u2019s Ernest Jones IV<\/a> in the wake of a late hit on the Seahawks sideline.<\/p>\n

The NFL<\/a> issued the suspension on Monday, saying the headbutt of a player without a helmet during Sunday\u2019s 32-29 win against Seattle was \u201ccontrary to the generally understood principles of sportsmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenlaw will miss San Francisco\u2019s game next Monday night against Washington, although he can appeal his punishment.<\/p>\n

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Sunday\u2019s incident came when Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold scrambled and was hit late by Greenlaw after going out of bounds, leading to a personal foul in a game San Francisco went on to win 32-29.<\/p>\n

Several Seahawks defenders immediately confronted Greenlaw after the hit and the linebacker responded by headbutting Jones. Jones was bleeding after the hit and Greenlaw was ejected.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to get baited big time when, especially when you\u2019re on their bench,\u201d coach Kyle Shanahan said after the game. \u201cThey told me that he had butted a guy without a helmet. So if that\u2019s exactly what happened, then yeah, we got to be a lot smarter than that. Can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenlaw has a history of infractions, and has been ejected two other times in his career. He had a sideline altercation with Philadelphia\u2019s head of security Dom DiSandro in 2023 and was also disqualified for a helmet-to-helmet hit on the Chargers\u2019 Justin Herbert in 2022.<\/p>\n

Greenlaw was also suspended for one game last season when he played in Denver for berating an official after a win over the New York Giants.<\/p>\n

Greenlaw returned to San Francisco this season after playing for the Broncos in 2025. He has 37 tackles in five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw was suspended for one game after headbutting Seattle\u2019s Ernest Jones IV in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-493843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}