Eddie Lacy is thinking about cutting his hair after San Francisco 49ers linebacker Gerald Hodges pulled him down from behind by the dreadlocks on Friday.

The Green Bay Packers running back told the Green Bay Press Gazette after the game that it was painful and that he might cut his hair because of it.

"I’m debating after that," Lacy told the newspaper. "I don’t know how many more of those I’d like to experience. We’re in camp. So I’ve got to wait until I get out of camp, and then I’ll assess it.”

It happened on Lacy’s longest run of the game -- a 21-yard gain down the right sideline. He might have gone even farther had Hodges not been able to pull him down from behind. In real time, it looked as though Hodges might have used a horse-collar tackle -- which would have been illegal -- to bring down Lacy. But replays showed he had him by the hair.

“It definitely hurts,” said Lacy, who remained in the game after the play.

While the horse-collar tackle would draw a penalty, hair is fair game. Last year, Pittsburgh Steelers running back DeAngelo Williams got dragged down by the hair against the Baltimore Ravens and said after the game that he had no problem with it.

Although painful, Lacy said it’s not his hair he’s worried about.

“For my legs,” Lacy said. “They’re important. Because that’s how most guys hurt their knees, because you get pulled from the back, which is why the horse-collar rule thing [exists]. So luckily that didn’t happen.”

As far as a new hairstyle, Lacy made it clear in a tweet Saturday that he's not planning any drastic changes.

I'm not cutting my hair completely off just trimming it

— Eddie Lacy (@Lil_Eazy_Ana_42) August 28, 2016

Lacy told the Press Gazette that the earliest he would possibly cut his hair would be the Packers’ bye in Week 4, when he plans to return home to Louisiana.