Greenlaw: “I did not think I was going to get drafted. Out of all the teams, all 32 teams, my brother asked me the day before the (draft) he said, ‘Who do you not think you’ll get drafted by?’ I said, ‘The 49ers.’
“When I left out the combine room and I just saw the look on Kyle Shanahan’s face – it was like he had no happy expression. I saw (49ers former defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans) before, I knew ‘Mec from the Senior Bowl, so I had chopped it up with him. Me and him connected fast, we were laughing, chopping it up, getting it right. During the combine, I saw him again and I’m talking to Kyle and everybody at the desk and Kyle had no smile, no facial expression.
“He said, ‘Did you work hard? Could you work harder?’ I was like, ‘I think I worked hard, I did, yeah.’ He said, ‘Could you have worked harder?’ And he’s just drilling me with questions. So I looked at ‘Mec, I just shook my head and I said ‘Man, I’m sorry bro, it was nice knowing y’all.’ And he said
He said, ‘Did you work hard? Could you work harder?’ I was like, ‘I think I worked hard, I did, yeah.’ He said, ‘Could you have worked harder?’ And he’s just drilling me with questions. So I looked at ‘Mec, I just shook my head and I said ‘Man, I’m sorry bro, it was nice knowing y’all.’ And he said ‘Alright, see you later… enjoy your backpack.’ And I was like, I’m not going to this team, they’re not going to come get me, and look what happened. Crazy.”