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Still No Firm Timeline for 49ers LB Dre Greenlaw's Return

Don't expect to see Greenlaw on the field any time soon.

Grant Cohn

Feb 8, 2024; Las Vegas, NV, USA; San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw (57) during a press conference before Super Bowl LVIII at Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
Feb 8, 2024; Las Vegas, NV, USA; San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw (57) during a press conference before Super Bowl LVIII at Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images / Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
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The 49ers need reinforcements.

They're 4-4 and clearly not as good as they were last season, so they could use a few injured players to return after the bye week and breathe new life into an old team. Christian McCaffrey could return from bilateral Achilles tendonitis for the 49ers' Week 10 road game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers if he feels no soreness. It's unclear when Dre Greenlaw will return from an Achilles tear.

“We talk about a lot of stuff and he is working through it, but I hate to give a rough timeline for you guys because we're not exactly sure of it," Kyle Shanahan said Monday on a conference call. "I think once we get back from this Bye week, I think he's going to be about week-to-week deciding whether we should get him back into the practice deal or not. But, we'll see how this next week goes. We'll see when we get back from the Bye week. I think once it gets past the Bye week then we'll be looking each week on whether we should bring him back or not because it is getting closer.”

Greenlaw ruptured his Achilles during the 49ers' Super Bowl loss to the Chiefs on Feb. 11, which means there's no guarantee he'll play this season. Achilles' tears can take up to 12 months to fully heal. If he were to miss all 17 regular season games and return for the playoffs, that would be impressive.

Don't expect to see Greenlaw on the field any time soon.

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GRANT COHN

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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