{"id":154344,"date":"2025-08-18T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T00:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154344\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T00:02:11","slug":"brian-robinson-trade-washington-commanders-hint-at-major-jacory-croskey-merritt-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154344\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Robinson trade: Washington Commanders hint at major Jacory Croskey-Merritt update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Washington Commanders are reportedly &#8220;shopping&#8221; running back Brian Robinson Jr to teams ahead of the start of the NFL regular season in September, NFL Insider Jordan Schultz reported Sunday. The deal for the 26-year-old comes amid an impressive show by rookie RB Jacory Croskey-Merritt in the NFL preseason.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Commanders-Football-16_1755471556103_1755471625360.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Commanders running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt (32) works out during practice at NFL football minicamp, Tuesday, June 10.(AP)\" title=\"Washington Commanders running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt (32) works out during practice at NFL football minicamp, Tuesday, June 10.(AP)\"\/>   Washington Commanders running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt (32) works out during practice at NFL football minicamp, Tuesday, June 10.(AP)    <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Commanders have been shopping RB Brian Robinson Jr. to teams around the NFL. The former 3rd-round pick out of Alabama is entering the final year of his contract,&#8221; Schultz wrote in a post on X.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>However, as soon as the news of Brian Robinson Jr&#8217;s potential trade dropped, all the buzz on social media seemed to be about rookie RB Jason Croskey-Merritt, who impressed immensely in the NFL pre-season after being drafted by the Commanders in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL draft as 245th overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Croskey-Merritt went straight into the Commanders squad for the first preseason game against the Patriots. He had 7 carries for 24 yards and 1 reception for 8 yards, impressing the Commanders fans.<\/p>\n<p>The fans now believe the franchise hierarchy is also impressed with the performance of Croskey-Merritt, so much so that they are ready to trade Brian Robinson Jr out of <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/washington\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Washington\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also read: <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/sports\/us-sports\/nfl-legend-barry-sanders-jersey-mistaken-for-shedeurs-on-air-embarrassing-say-viewers-101755368659710.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"NFL legend Barry Sanders&#039; jersey mistaken for Shedeur&#039;s on air; \u2018embarrassing\u2019 say viewers\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL legend Barry Sanders&#8217; jersey mistaken for Shedeur&#8217;s on air; \u2018embarrassing\u2019 say viewers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Commanders are shopping Brian Robinson for a trade\u2026 and now everyone is talking about Jacory Croskey-Merritt, but wait\u2026 I gave you him as a <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/sports\/us-sports\/fantasy-football-here-are-top-late-round-fliers-to-catch-for-your-draft-101753976869587.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Fantasy Football\" rel=\"noopener\">Fantasy Football<\/a> Sleeper in JUNE??,&#8221; John Frascella, a Fantasy Football Expert, wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was @mtrobbins1 who was the first person to tell me about Jacory Croskey-Merritt,&#8221; <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/sports\/us-sports\/fantasy-football-here-are-top-late-round-fliers-to-catch-for-your-draft-101753976869587.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Fantasy Football\" rel=\"noopener\">Fantasy Football<\/a> podcaster Michael Hauff said. \u201cLooks like he\u2019s about to become a thing with Brian Robinson being shopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going to be throwing more late round darts on Jacory Croskey-Merritt and Austin Ekeler,&#8221; NFL Analyst Michael F Florio said.<\/p>\n<p>During the preseason, Commanders starter RB Brian Robinson Jr and backup Austin Ekeler were resting, leaving Jacory Croskey-Merritt to compete for the RB3 spot with Jeremy McNichols and Chris Rodriguez. Though the Pro Football Network lists Jacory Croskey-Merritt as the Commanders&#8217; RB4, there is a feeling it could soon change for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Commanders are reportedly &#8220;shopping&#8221; running back Brian Robinson Jr to teams ahead of the start of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[90149,90150,90151,1232,62,67,132,68,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-154344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-brian-robinson","9":"tag-brian-robinson-jr","10":"tag-jacory-croskey-merritt","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115046838808223473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}