A few weeks before the 2025 National Football League season begins, wide receiver Demarcus Robinson of the San Francisco 49ers has been suspended for three games due to a violation of the league’s drug-abuse policy. The announcement came on Wednesday from National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell.
Robinson, who signed a two-year, $9.5 million contract with the 49ers in the summer of 2025, was previously with the Los Angeles Rams during the 2023 and 2024 seasons. In November last year, he was taken into custody in California on suspicion of driving under the influence after being pulled over for driving more than 100 miles per hour. Last month, Robinson entered a no-contest plea to a misdemeanor DUI offense. As a result, he will not face jail time but must pay a $390 fine and serve three years’ probation in Los Angeles. He is also required to complete a three-month alcohol treatment program.
Additional charges against Robinson—including driving without a valid license and having a blood alcohol content above 0.08—were dropped.
Robinson began his professional career with the Kansas City Chiefs and was part of their squad that won against his current team, the San Francisco 49ers, in Super Bowl LIV (2019). While playing with the Baltimore Ravens in 2022, he recorded a career-high forty-eight receptions.
In total across his last two seasons, Robinson tallied fifty-seven passes for five hundred seventy-six receiving yards and eleven touchdowns. For now, he joins other receivers on San Francisco’s roster such as Ricky Pearsall and Jauan Jennings. Brandon Aiyuk remains unavailable until Week Six as he continues recovery from a knee injury suffered last season.
The earliest possible return for Robinson will be Week Four when San Francisco faces Jacksonville on September twenty-eight.
Despite these developments and roster challenges at receiver ahead of opening day, general manager John Lynch remains positive about the team’s resilience: “We’ll figure out a way, and we’re going to be all right,” Lynch said (…).
As preparations continue for the new National Football League season and injuries persist among key players like Aiyuk, San Francisco will look to rely on its new acquisitions and healthy receivers to stay competitive in an increasingly challenging NFC West division.
