Commanders activate rookie working back again Brian Robinson just weeks following he was shot

Asher Notheis

October 08, 02:14 PM Oct 08, 02:14 PM

The Washington Commanders have welcomed back rookie participant Brian Robinson Jr. to the football subject just around a thirty day period just after he was shot.

The Commanders have activated Robinson for their video game on Sunday from the Tennessee Tigers. The rookie returned to practice before this week just after he experienced experienced two gunshot wounds in his reduced physique in the course of an tried robbery in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, the staff introduced Saturday.

"He experienced a fantastic 7 days," head mentor Ron Rivera claimed Friday afternoon. "This morning, he was there, and he was in excellent form. So, we are really fired up."

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Robinson was likely by agility drills only 18 days after his attack and undergoing profitable operation. When he described the moments right after he sustained the injuries as "in all probability a person of the lowest details in my lifetime," he also used the time in the course of his restoration to find out far more about himself.

"I'm surely bold, and I'm heading to struggle for nearly anything I believe that in," Robinson reported. "If I feel that I can return back to the area and do what I require to do to the amount that I want to do it, then that is the steps I am taking to put myself in that position."

The rookie's education in the previous week built it obvious that he was all set to return to the activity, and on Wednesday, he accomplished a very similar amount of know-how in the recreation that he experienced shown in schooling camp.

Robinson resumes playing just forward of Sunday's sport, the fifth recreation for the group this time. The Commanders have not experienced the strongest commence this period, profitable only their initially game against the Jacksonville Jaguars and shedding the subsequent a few games, in accordance to the team's agenda.