{"id":576763,"date":"2026-04-02T05:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576763\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:39:42","slug":"hamilton-tiger-cats-have-had-conversations-with-former-nfl-running-back-james-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576763\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Tiger-Cats have had conversations with former NFL running back James Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have been in communication with former NFL running back James Robinson, who was re-added to the team\u2019s neg<\/a>otiation list<\/a> on March 19.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur personnel department\u2019s\u00a0definitely had conversations,\u201d football operations president Orlondo Steinauer said. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you which way it was trending. If things were trending exactly the way we envisioned it,\u00a0he would be signed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not had conversations with him,\u201d head coach Scott Milanovich said. \u201cI know of him,\u00a0I\u2019ve seen his film. He\u2019s a talented player, but we\u2019re\u00a0going to have to see\u00a0how that potential fit happens. I\u2019m worried about the guys that we have on the roster right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The five-foot-nine, 219-pound ball-carrier went unselected in the 2020 NFL Draft but earned Jacksonville\u2019s starting running back job as a rookie<\/a>. He rushed 240 times for 1,070 yards with seven touchdowns and made 49 receptions for 344 yards and three scores for the Jaguars. The Rockford, Ill. native earned approximately $6.1 million USD over four seasons in the NFL.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t rule out anybody,\u201d Steinauer said. \u201cWe like\u00a0the running backs that we had \u2014\u00a0I mean,\u00a0some\u00a0that are coming in, we had them targeted last year. We can only bring so many up on NFL (practice roster) expansion. We\u2019ve seen a couple of them in advance. Looking forward to the competition,\u00a0[Robinson] would\u00a0add to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

East Division all-star running back Greg Bell<\/a> signed with the Ottawa Redblacks in CFL free agency. After two stints on the team\u2019s practice roster last year, Shane Watts<\/a>\u00a0could get first crack to earn the starting RB job due to his familiarity with the playbook. Larry Rountree III<\/a>, who made around $2.4 million USD in the NFL, could also compete along with Avery Morrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a position that we have a couple of guys that we have some familiarity with,\u00a0but nobody with CFL snaps. Anytime you\u2019re in a situation like this, you try to make it an open competition and see who does the best,\u201d Milanovich said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere may be\u00a0some things we do a little bit differently in\u00a0training camp to help evaluate that position in terms of\u00a0maybe\u00a0some more full contact periods. It\u2019s hard to evaluate guys when they have two preseason games, especially with our second preseason game being before a six-day week in our opener.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old offensive guru wants to find creative ways to separate running backs in the competition for the Ticats\u2019 starting job<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have been in communication with former NFL running back James Robinson, who was re-added to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,58125,221280,49,48,7028,521,522,520,180015,3801,15655,8494,11286,47806,221281,221282,514,1044,171512,186503,54291,82,43334,167300],"class_list":["post-576763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-afc","tag-avery-morrow","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-greg-bell","tag-hamilton","tag-hamilton-tiger-cats","tag-jacksonville","tag-jaguars","tag-james-robinson","tag-larry-rountree","tag-larry-rountree-iii","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-orlondo-steinauer","tag-scott-milanovich","tag-shane-watts","tag-sports","tag-ticats","tag-tiger-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}