The Washington Commanders revealed on their final injury report Friday that starting running back Brian Robinson Jr. would miss Sunday’s Week 10 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Robinson has been dealing with a hamstring injury over the last two weeks, which forced him to miss the Week 9 win over the New York Giants. Robinson also missed the Week 6 game at Baltimore because of a knee injury. Head coach Dan Quinn said the knee injury is better, but the hamstring issue is the same leg.
“Same side,” Quinn said. “So that is, I don’t know if it’s a correlation, but it definitely is a factor to it, but the knee’s doing good and so not the same injury. So that’s a good sign.”
Robinson is Washington’s leading rusher with 461 yards, averaging 4.6 yards per attempt, and is tied for a team-high with six touchdowns.
Quinn was asked if Chris Rodriguez Jr. factored into Washington’s decision to give Robinson more time to heal.
“Yeah, we’ll huddle up tonight and visit with medical side and [GM] Adam [Peters], myself and then kinda get an assessment about where we’re at and then we can proceed if needed when we go to that. But that’ll be kind of our next operation for this evening,” he answered.
Rodriguez has been elevated from the practice squad three times and led the Commanders with 52 rushing yards last week. Austin Ekeler will likely start, but Rodriguez and Jeremy McNichols should also see plenty of time in the backfield.
