Could this be the best season of Bijan Robinson’s career?
Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice, fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and NFL writer Charles McDonald discuss how Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson has improved over the last few seasons and say this could be his best season yet. Catch the full conversation on "Football 301" - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen.
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I'm gonna go with Bijan Robinson.
Damn.
I think Bijan, yeah, Bijan is kind of just guys I like and also just really good players.
But I think Bijan is just absolutely incredible.
I don't know if I have to even point out a stat, but this guy can take any touch to the house.
Shoot, watching the fancy playoffs last year, that was amazing.
But also he's gotten better in pass protection, a truly great receiver.
And I actually thought they did a nice job of using him as a receiver the last couple of years under Robinson.
Just maybe not in different ways I was expecting, but maybe some of that swing stuff.
But on top of it, just unbelievable runner of the football and just great vision, tempo, can just do everything.
Can make a guy miss in the hole, can hit doubles when nothing is there.
So I think Bijan is just absolutely incredible and he's my number four overall pick.
But thoughts on those two or thoughts on Bijan, I should maybe say.
Chuck, that was gonna be your next pick.
I sweat snipe him a little bit.
Yeah, that's gonna be my next pick.
Okay.
I mean, like you said, what's there to say really?
I know.
It's kind of cool when you have these guys who are like, they're billed as the guy from like 18 years old at college and then they kind of fulfill every step of that.
Then even last year, Bijan took another step with the receiving because there was a while during the season where he was on pace for a thousand thousand season.
I think he finished with like 800 something receiving yards.
So just the fact that Bijan can even have a season like that where you're looking at 800 yards through the air and then you have like the 93 yard rushing touchdown against the Rams.
There's just, it just kind of feels like he's gotten to a point where there's not really many holes in his game.
And what I'm most excited about this year is just kind of be able to see, okay, last year with Stefanski and Reeves in Cleveland, they were able to kind of get those running back screens popping off with guys who are not as good as Bijan Robinson, don't have some of the players that the Falcons offensive line has, even like post-Cale McGarry retirement.
I still think like where the Falcons are on their offensive line is better than where the Browns were last year.
So it just kind of gets me really excited about what the floor is here with Stefanski and Reeves and Bijan because that just seems like a really explosive trio.
So I think that this year, it could be like the best year of Bijan's career with his new coaching staff, which is a pretty high bar considering what he just did last year, you know, just from like a volume stat sense.
