“Anytime you can get back to what you love doing, it’s always a good thing,” the 49ers linebacker said. “You take things how they are. It’s unfortunate what happened last year, but being able to stay with the team and be around them, it’s what kept me into it. I feel like it helped me pick up where I left off.”

When Haralson went down with injury last season, the 49ers thought he would certainly be done for the year. This belief prompted the team to place him on season-ending Injured Reserve. Coach Jim Harbaugh would come to regret not using his exemption on Haralson that would have allowed him to return to practice after six weeks and games after eight weeks.

“I look back and think that I made a mistake on personally was probably not putting that tag on him, that exemption that he could have come back and played because he was healthy and ready to go probably mid-to-late December,” the 49ers coach said last month. “And to his credit, he always stayed engaged and stayed focused on helping his team.”

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