Campbell, a starting linebacker for the 49ers most of this season and a nine-year NFL veteran, refused to go into a game against the Rams and when coach Kyle Shanahan asked him about it, Campbell said "he didn't want to play today" according to Shanahan.

In a Friday conference call, San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said that the franchise is planning to part with linebacker De'Vondre Campbell. "We’re working through the semantics of exactly how to deal with it,

Buried under the wreckage, barely able to speak at an audible volume, was Kyle Shanahan — the man who had the most to do with the 49ers’ failings, and the biggest culprit behind a last-gasp attempt to extend an era that seemed doomed from its inception last February.