{"id":277904,"date":"2025-08-10T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/277904\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:45:17","slug":"49ers-to-sign-jeff-wilson-jr-who-they-traded-to-dolphins-in-2022-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/277904\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers to sign Jeff Wilson Jr., who they traded to Dolphins in 2022: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers will have a familiar face returning to their running back room this week.<\/p>\n<p>Citing agents Drew Rosenhaus and Shawn O\u2019Dare, ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter is reporting the 49ers are bringing back running back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/10\/13\/jeff-wilson-jr-leads-49ers-in-rushing-and-in-smiles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Wilson Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers likely have no intention of playing starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/06\/12\/is-christian-mccaffrey-back-to-his-old-self-well-find-out-at-49ers-training-camp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian McCaffrey<\/a> in the preseason, backup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/08\/02\/49ers-camp-guerendo-juszczyk-hurt-in-practice-rookie-d-linemen-talk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Guerendo<\/a> is out for at least two more weeks with a shoulder injury and fifth-round draft pick Jordan James had finger surgery after knee issues earlier in camp. Their leading rusher in Saturday\u2019s preseason-opening loss to Denver was undrafted free agent Corey Kiner (10 rushes, 45 yards), followed by veteran free agent Ameer Abdullah (four rushes, 20 yards). Abdullah was hurt during the game, suffering a rib injury on a play in which he fumbled.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson played in 45 games with 15 starts for the 49ers under Shanahan and gained 1,733 yards on 390 carries with 15 touchdowns. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/11\/01\/49ers-deal-jeff-wilson-jr-to-dolphins-at-trade-deadline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded to the Miami Dolphins<\/a> in 2022 when McCaffrey was acquired by trade from Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers overhauled their running back depth this offseason, trading last year\u2019s leading rusher, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/03\/15\/49ers-trade-top-rusher-mason-to-vikings-in-exchange-for-draft-assets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Mason, to Minnesota<\/a> and allowing 2021 leader Elijah Mitchell to walk in free agency, where he signed with Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson led the 49ers with 600 rushing yards during their doomed 2020 season. He has plenty of experience in coach Kyle Shanahan\u2019s offense, as his coach in Miami was former 49ers offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers will have a familiar face returning to their running back room this week. Citing agents Drew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,1921,929,216,251,2087,6,252,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-277904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-inside-sports","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-dolphins","14":"tag-miamidolphins","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115006664076514601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277904","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=277904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}