For back-to-back a long time in 2022 and 2023, the San Francisco 49ers gloated the NFL’s best linebacker corps, agreeing to Professional Football Center.
Hell, indeed NFL.com reflected the Niners’ arrangement on this famous list, bragging approximately how San Francisco had an shame of wealth at the position, much obliged to a great extent to the tip top pair of supporters Dre Greenlaw and Fred Warner.
Well, unfortunately, the 49ers now not sit on that list heading into 2024.
Master Football Focus’ Gordon McGuinness fair positioned all 32 teams’ linebacker corps once more entering the modern season and after both free organization and the NFL Draft. But the Niners, assail by one striking damage at the position, can’t claim the No. 1 spot, agreeing to his rankings.
49ers enter 2024 with No. 2 linebacker corps, per PFF
San Francisco dropped from the beat spot to No. 2 on the list, agreeing to McGuinness, falling behind as it were the Modern York Planes, who presently claim the No. 1 compartment.
McGuinness’ reasoning behind the 49ers’ drop makes culminate sense:
“Fred Warner, apparently the most excellent linebacker within the NFL right presently, has earned PFF grades over 80.0 in each of the past four seasons. The 49ers would have a case for the No. 1 spot in case not for Dre Greenlaw’s harm within the Super Bowl, making his accessibility to begin the 2024 season a address stamp. But in marking De’Vondre Campbell, who has earned PFF grades over 65.0 in each of the past three seasons, they have given themselves a pad.”
Greenlaw’s torn Achilles may be a gigantic blow, one which ostensibly turned the tide in favor of the Kansas City Chiefs within the Super Bowl final February.
With his status exceptionally much in question for the begin of the customary season, San Francisco selected to ink Campbell, the Green Narrows Packers’ previous first-team All-Pro, as a quality fill-in to hold the line.
But Campbell isn’t a Greenlaw at this organize of the former’s career, and the 49ers do not precisely have a parcel of demonstrated profundity behind those two and Warner, meaning the require for proceeded wellbeing is crucial until Greenlaw returns at 100 percent.
Either way, seeing the Niners in the top two is still quite a also, particularly knowing Greenlaw likely won’t be back until the center of the season.
And, in case you were pondering (since you continuously are), the NFC West equal Arizona Cardinals hold the final spot in PFF’s rankings.