{"id":824901,"date":"2026-03-21T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/824901\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:04:28","slug":"ex-dc-robert-saleh-raves-about-49ers-dre-greenlaw-signing-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/824901\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-DC Robert Saleh raves about 49ers\u2019 Dre Greenlaw signing \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers had an eventful offseason when it comes to roster acquisitions, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/nfl-free-agency-mike-evans-buccaneers\/1924869\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wide receivers Mike Evans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/source-christian-kirk-contract\/1924385\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Kirk<\/a> marking the most exciting additions for most fans.<\/p>\n<p>While bolstering the wide receiver room for Brock Purdy made more headlines around the NFL, 49ers fans rejoiced when San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/dre-greenlaw-nfl-free-agency-contract\/1923608\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brought back star linebacker Dre Greenlaw.<\/a> After signing a three-year, $31.5 million contract with the Denver Broncos before this past season, Greenlaw was released by the team after appearing in just eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Broncos being out on Greenlaw, the Faithful and All-Pro linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/dre-greenlaw-fred-warner-reunion\/1923738\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Warner have expressed excitement<\/a> regarding the move. However, those around the Bay aren&#8217;t the only ones pleased by the move, as former defensive coordinator and first-year Tennessee Titans head coach Robert Saleh recently told the media how excited he was for Greenlaw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So happy for him,&#8221; Saleh said. &#8220;For Dre, good chance for him to get his feet back underneath him in a place where he&#8217;s familiar, knocking people around like he used to. I mean, he did it last year too, but pumped for Dre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saleh, a former linebackers coach himself, coached Greenlaw during the 2019 and 2020 seasons with San Francisco. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Greenlaw is heading into his eighth NFL season, totaling 498 tackles, 4.5 sacks and four interceptions. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how much he has left in the tank, but clearly the 49ers were willing to find out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/49ers-talk-with-matt-maiocco.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the 49ers Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers had an eventful offseason when it comes to roster acquisitions, with wide receivers Mike Evans and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,1160,7,6,6043,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-824901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-dre-greenlaw","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-robert-saleh","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116266602648596709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}