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49ers LB Eric Kendricks said the lack of interest in him during free agency fueled him to reinvigorate his career.

“I don’t want to say it was anger, but it was motivating,” he said of the tepid interest, via The Athletic. “It was like, ‘I’ve been the underdog through parts of my career.’ And it kind of felt like I was going back into that category. It was, ‘Damn, I’m getting slept on again.’”

Kendricks also played through a shoulder injury through most of last season that caused him to require surgery in January, which caused apprehension around him in free agency.

“Teams look at every freakin’ thing!” he said. “I’m not going to say it didn’t affect it. Listen, if I had shut myself down early, if I had kept playing, if I had gotten another year of age — they look at every freakin’ thing.”

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