{"id":310571,"date":"2025-08-23T07:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/310571\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:01:17","slug":"washington-commanders-trade-brian-robinson-jr-to-san-francisco-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/310571\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Commanders trade Brian Robinson Jr. to San Francisco 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A name that recently began to <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/crimson-tide\/football\/2025\/08\/19\/washington-commanders-brian-robinson-trade-rumors-alabama-football\/85722342007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">emerge in trade rumors<\/a>, the Washington Commanders have traded former <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama Crimson Tide<\/a> running back Brian Robinson Jr. to the San Francisco 49ers, per a report from ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p>In return, Washington will reportedly receive a 2026 sixth round pick from San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>A former third round pick in the 2022 NFL draft, Robinson spent the first three seasons of his professional career with the Commanders, rushing for a combined 2,329 yards and 15 touchdowns across 41 games. Starting in 37 of those games, Robinson also hauled in 65 receptions for 587 yards and five scores.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Robinson rushed for a career-high 799 yards and eight touchdowns across 14 games for a Washington team that reached the NFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson now heads to San Francisco where he is likely set to serve as the backup running back with the 49ers to starter Christian McCaffrey. The lone other former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/3478\/\" data-autotag=\"6c1f0d70-9904-45ac-a261-5bcd28d2a449\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alabama<\/a> player currently in San Francisco is quarterback Mac Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rolltidewire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@RollTideWire<\/a>\u00a0on X, and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RollTideWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/1284\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Alabama<\/a>\u00a0news, notes and opinion.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A name that recently began to emerge in trade rumors, the Washington Commanders have traded former Alabama Crimson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[52,930,2400,247,265,2935,9763,318,339,427,324,2398,12,388,7,20842,379,1702,1070,8919,5215,248,267,246,88,6,245,264,101,326,25414,21400,9,266,2399,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-310571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","10":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","11":"tag-american","12":"tag-american-football","13":"tag-brian","14":"tag-brian-robinson-jr","15":"tag-college","16":"tag-college-sports","17":"tag-commanders","18":"tag-conference","19":"tag-crimson","20":"tag-espn","21":"tag-espn-inc","22":"tag-football","23":"tag-hub","24":"tag-inc","25":"tag-jones","26":"tag-jr","27":"tag-mac","28":"tag-mac-jones","29":"tag-national","30":"tag-national-sports","31":"tag-neutral","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-nfl","34":"tag-overall","35":"tag-overall-neutral","36":"tag-robinson","37":"tag-sec","38":"tag-sec-conference-football","39":"tag-sec-hub","40":"tag-sports","41":"tag-sports-news","42":"tag-tide","43":"tag-washington","44":"tag-washington-commanders","45":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310571","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=310571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}