The San Francisco 49ers have a handful of players who'll be wearing new jersey numbers when they debut in the 2026 regular season. Three wide receivers including Jacob Cowing, De'Zhaun Stribling and Demarcus Robinson are all wearing numbers they didn't wear in the preseason per the Athletic's Matt Barrows.
Cowing has changed his number from 6 to 4 following the departure of quarterback Adrian Martinez who wore No. 4 during the preseason.
Stribling, who was in No. 15 during the preseason, has switched to No. 7 which was being worn by Demarcus Robinson. This is a bad beat for anyone who bought a Stribling jersey during his stellar preseason performance.
Robinson is now wearing No. 11, which belonged to Brandon Aiyuk before Aiyuk deserted the team
and was placed on the reserve/left squad list.
While Aiyuk is technically still under contract with the 49ers, he's not on the roster so he isn't assigned a jersey number which freed up the No. 11 for Robinson. The last time Robinson wore No. 11 was from 2018-21 when he was with the Kansas City Chiefs.
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