SANTA CLARA — For Dre Greenlaw, coming back to Santa Clara after a one-year stint with the Denver Broncos was like coming home. The linebacker did not practice on Thursday but spoke to local media after the session and shared the feelings he had when he walked back into the 49ers headquarters.
“An unbelievable feeling just missing the guys, missing the organization, missing just everybody,” Greenlaw said. “All the workers in the organization, the coaches, just a sense of feeling like home is what I kind of got.”
Greenlaw spent the 2025 season with the Broncos after signing a three-year, $31.5 million contract during free agency. On March 12, Denver released him after he appeared in eight games — seven as a starter.
The very next day, general manager John Lynch and the 49ers procured a deal to bring the linebacker back to the Bay Area. For Greenlaw, there was nowhere else he’d rather be.
“I didn’t think about [anywhere] else, honestly,” Greenlaw said. “I mean, it could have been, if [the 49ers] wasn’t a possibility, but, I mean,...