Bijan Robinson delivered a standout performance for the Atlanta Falcons during their Monday Night Football victory over the Buffalo Bills, achieving milestones rarely seen in the Super Bowl era.
Robinson’s statistics included 19 carries for 170 yards, averaging 8.9 yards per carry, and an 81-yard touchdown run. He also caught six passes for 68 yards, totaling 238 yards from scrimmage.
“He’s the best player in football,” said Falcons head coach Raheem Morris after the game. “I’ve said it multiple times.”
Robinson’s performance was notable on several fronts. His 81-yard touchdown matched Michael Turner’s run against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2012 as the second-longest rushing touchdown in Falcons history, behind Warrick Dunn’s 90-yard run against the New York Giants in 2006. The play was also the longest run by any NFL player this season and marked the longest rushing touchdown on Monday Night Football since Matt Breida’s 83-yarder for San Francisco in 2019.
“There are some people who are just born to be a certain athlete,” said teammate Drake London. “Like you have certain people who are born to be basketball players, such as LeBron (James). You have people who are born to be football players, like they have the perfect body shape for it. Now, (Robinson) goes out there, and it’s like art. It’s amazing to see.”
Robinson has now surpassed 100 scrimmage yards in each of his first five games this season, tying William Andrews’ team record set in 1983 for most consecutive games with at least that many yards to start a season. He reached this milestone before halftime—a first in his career.
From only one play of more than 50 yards from scrimmage between 2023 and 2024, Robinson has produced three such plays through five games this year.
Drake London also recorded more than 140 scrimmage yards in the first half. Together with Robinson, they became only the second pair of NFL teammates since at least 1991 to each gain over 140 scrimmage yards in a single half—the previous instance being Kevin Curtis and Brian Westbrook with Philadelphia in 2007.
At age 23, Robinson is now the youngest Falcon to reach 4,000 career scrimmage yards and tied William Andrews’ mark for fewest games needed—39—to reach that total.
His rushing yard total is a franchise record for prime-time games and makes him just the second player ever to post at least 170 rushing and over 60 receiving yards in a prime-time contest; Tiki Barber accomplished this feat with New York Giants on December 31, 2005.
Through five games this season, Robinson’s total of 822 scrimmage yards ranks fourth-highest by any player during that span since the Super Bowl era began—a mark last achieved by Christian McCaffrey in 2019.
