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Kyle Shanahan Provides an Injury Update for 49ers LB Dre Greenlaw

Dre Greenlaw practiced for the first time this week since he tore his Achilles in the Super Bowl.

Grant Cohn

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw returns an interception back for a touchdown against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021 at Ford Field.
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw returns an interception back for a touchdown against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021 at Ford Field. / Kirthmon F. Dozier / USA TODAY NETWORK
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Dre Greenlaw practiced for the first time this week since he tore his Achilles in the Super Bowl.

Here's what head coach Kyle Shanahan said about Greenlaw's week of practice courtesy of the 49ers p.r. department.

Q: How did Greenlaw make it through the week?

SHANAHAN: “He had a real good week. It was great for him to get him back out there. It was great for us. We loved having him around, just that first week of coming off an Achilles. I think it's so crucial for the confidence of a guy. Got a lot of scout-team reps, did a lot of individual stuff with the guys and it was great week and hopefully next week will be even better.”

Q: I know coming into this week you guys pretty much already determined he wasn't going to play. Are your minds open next week that potentially he could play here?

SHANAHAN: “I think they're open to it, but also the game after that's a Thursday night game. So I think that makes it a little harder. We’ve just got to see how he feels and stuff. But with those games being so close, that's a problem too. I'm not going to decide at all right now. We'll see how next week goes, but I'd say it'd be an outside chance.”

Q: Did he show flashes where he was moving like Dre?

SHANAHAN: “Oh, yeah. When guys come back, they come back healthy. Guys come back and they can move, they’ve got fresh legs, they can go. But it's about getting that confidence to react. They've been moving full-speed for a while before they come back to football, but when you come back to football it's not really planned running and stuff. You’ve got to react and cover people and backpedal and stop on a dime and go explode forward. So, it's more about guys just getting that confidence because it's such a traumatic injury ripping your Achilles and stuff. He moved great, it's just about building that stamina, building that confidence up so he's ready to get into a football game.”

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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