Greenlaw still emotional about ‘devastating’ Super Bowl injury
May 9, 2024 at 9:00 AM
SANTA CLARA — Linebacker Dre Greenlaw is three months into an expected nine-month journey to return to the football field. He often thinks back to that February evening in Las Vegas when he sustained a torn Achilles as he prepared to take the field after a second-quarter change of possession in Super Bowl LVIII. "Sometimes you get a little flashback and shed a couple of tears thinking about it," Greenlaw told NBC Sports Bay Area in his first interview since the 49ers' 25-22 overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Greenlaw played the 49ers' first 12 defensive snaps in the game and registered three tackles. He could not continue after sustaining a freak, non-contact injury. Greenlaw underwent surgery four days later. "It's definitely an emotional thing because you know how hard you worked for that moment, how hard your team worked to get in that moment," Greenlaw said. "You're that close to it and you can't go out there and compete. So it just kind of feels like you left everybody hanging. "So it's one of the things that you just kind of think about and you just try not to cry." Greenlaw had been battling an issue with his right Achilles that kept him out of the 49ers' Week 18...
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