{"id":83509,"date":"2025-08-20T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83509\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:53:07","slug":"brian-robinson-jr-excused-from-commanders-practice-as-trade-rumors-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83509\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Robinson Jr. excused from Commanders practice as trade rumors linger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. was not at practice on Wednesday, just days after he wasn\u2019t in attendance for Washington\u2019s preseason game on Monday, though head coach Dan Quinn told reporters that it was an \u201cexcused\u201d absence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All of this comes amid speculation over Robinson\u2019s future with the Commanders after he served as the team\u2019s primary back the past three seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrian\u2019s been excused from the practice today, and we hope to have some resolution on that soon,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tbaWMhwt994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Quinn told reporters<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36886663\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hands-ball-off-washington-commanders-108823174_257aff.jpg\" alt=\"Jayden Daniels handing off the football to Brian Robinson Jr. during practice.\" class=\"wp-image-36886663\"  \/>Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels (5) hands the ball off to Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. (8) during practice at the team\u2019s NFL football training camp, Sunday, July 27, 2025. AP<\/p>\n<p>Robinson is entering the final year of his rookie deal with the Commanders, who drafted him in the third round of the 2022 NFL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 41 games for the organization, Robinson rushed for 2,329 yards and last season, he set a career high for single-season rushing yards with 799 and a personal-best eight touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46009690\/commanders-rb-brian-robinson-jr-sit-amid-uncertain-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ESPN reported<\/a> that the Commanders could trade Robinson in the near future, and if nothing comes to fruition, may end up cutting him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Considering the time left on his contract, a trade could become a challenge to pull off if teams aren\u2019t willing to part with certain assets, even though the 26-year-old would be a fit for plenty of teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36886669\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/washington-commanders-running-back-brian-108602857.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Robinson Jr. catching a football at Washington Commanders training camp.\" class=\"wp-image-36886669\"\/> Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. (8) catches a ball during practice on day one of training camp at OrthoVirginia Training Center at Commanders Park. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>The Commanders appear set to roll with a running back group that includes veterans Austin Ekeler and Chris Rodriguez and rookie Jacory Croskey-Merritt.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to keep Robinson out of Monday\u2019s preseason game was a joint decision between the team and player and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/19\/sports\/sounds-like-brian-robinson-is-done-with-commanders-after-hard-dan-quinn-conversation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quinn told reporters <\/a>earlier in the week that he had spoken to the running back on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNews like that\u2019s always not easy,\u201d Quinn said about the talk he had with Robinson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid the ongoing contract stalemate between the team and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/16\/sports\/commanders-activate-star-receiver-terry-mclaurin-in-contract-drama-twist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wide receiver Terry McLaurin.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. was not at practice on Wednesday, just days after he wasn\u2019t in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85,1272],"class_list":["post-83509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}