{"id":232863,"date":"2025-07-24T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/232863\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:27:12","slug":"49ers-sign-wr-cephus-waive-rb-abanikanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/232863\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers Sign WR Cephus; Waive RB Abanikanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers today announced they have signed WR Quintez Cephus to a one-year deal. In order to make room on the roster, the team waived RB Israel Abanikanda.<\/p>\n<p>Cephus (6-1, 208) was originally drafted by the Detroit Lions in the fifth round (166th overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft. Throughout his five-year NFL career with the Lions (2020-24), Buffalo Bills (2024), Houston Texans (2024) and Los Angeles Rams (2024-25), he has appeared in 22 games (six starts) and registered 37 receptions for 568 yards (15.4 average) and four touchdowns. In 2024, Cephus spent time on the Rams practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>A 27-year-old native of Macon, GA, Cephus attended the University of Wisconsin for four years (2016-19) where he appeared in 38 games and registered 93 receptions for 1,496 yards (16.1 average) and 13 touchdowns<\/p>\n<p>Abanikanda (5-10, 216) was claimed off waivers by San Francisco on December 3, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers today announced they have signed WR Quintez Cephus to a one-year deal. In order&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,353,354,7,352,88,9678,6,5314,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-232863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-english","10":"tag-english-articles","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-latest-app","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-news-roster","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-roster-moves","17":"tag-san-francisco","18":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","19":"tag-sanfrancisco","20":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114909390143588493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}