Dre Greenlaw’s night ended early in Seattle after the 49ers linebacker was thrown out for head-butting Seahawks linebacker Ernest Jones during a sideline confrontation in the second quarter of San Francisco’s Week 5 matchup.
The sequence started when Greenlaw was flagged for a late hit on Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold near the Seattle sideline. That brought a crowd of Seahawks players into the mix, with Jones among those confronting him. In the middle of that exchange, Greenlaw, who was not wearing a helmet, head-butted Jones and was ejected.
Greenlaw entered the game as one of San Francisco’s defensive leaders and came in ranked second on the team with 34 tackles. His edge was on display a week earlier in the 49ers’ Week 4 win over the Denver Broncos, when he went after his former head coach Sean Payton and told him to "Get the f--k off the field." The league later fined him $11,941 for taunting Denver’s bench.
"He was fired up all week," George Kittle said of Greenlaw last Sunday. "I think you could've asked anybody who played with Dre Greenlaw for his first four or five years he was here, I think 90% of the roster would say that he was their favorite teammate."
That intensity has also landed Greenlaw in trouble before. He was suspended for one game last season after running after an official and jawing at them following a game-winning field goal. He has been ejected twice previously as well, including a 2022 game after a helmet-to-helmet hit on Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert and again during the 2022 playoffs, when he got into an altercation with the Philadelphia Eagles.
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