San Francisco 49ers star Deebo Samuel has already admitted he was in the wrong for the altercation involving him, kicker Jake Moody and long snapper Taybor Pepper during Sunday’s game, but that hasn’t stopped the criticism from raining down on Samuel.

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San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel was seen with his hands around the neck of a teammate — long-snapper Taybor Pepper — late in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s Week 10 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

After watching Deebo Samuel absolutely go off on the San Francisco 49ers ' special teams duo of Taybor Pepper and Jake Moody after a third-straight missed field goal, grabbing at the former's neck before swinging at the latter, it set the sports world on fire.

Head coach Kyle Shanahan clarified what went down, before calling the general response to the incident an "overreaction." Shanahan told reporters Monday that Pepper "overreacted a little bit" after Samuel challenged Moody to raise his level of play. That led to the star wide receiver shoving the long snapper, and things escalated a bit from there.

The Deebo Samuel sideline scuffle has been put to bed. “I talked to a number of guys on the team, we squashed it and now we’re good,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said Monday, the day after Samuel had some words for place kicker Jake Moody after his third missed field goal and ended up taking a swipe at long-snapper Taybor Pepper.