Just before Thanksgiving, former 49ers tight end Eason Ramson was strolling through the halls of San Francisco's Ella Hill Hutch Community Center. Someone asked him if he remembered a specific 49ers ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) -- He was once a rising star on the football field and top of his game, but drugs took it all away. Eason Ramson made the choice to change his life around, which he did with the ...

This is the first of three articles on 49er players of the 1980s and their drug use and other off-field missteps, and eventual reformation. The other two are on Bruce Collie and ...