Bijan Robinson’s third NFL season is only two games old, but the hype around the Atlanta Falcons star has already reached another level. His head coach isn’t holding back either.
“He’s definitely the best player in football, without a doubt,” Falcons coach Raheem Morris said Wednesday. “He’s unbelievable. I love the kid. I love everything about him. I love watching him with the ball. I love his confidence. I love his demeanor. I love his mindset. I love the leadership. I love everything about him.”
Not just the best running back. The best player in football.
A Hot Start to 2025
GettyFalcons RB Bijan Robinson
Bijan Robinson has opened the year on an absolute tear.
In Week 1, he torched the Bucs defense through the air with 100 receiving yards, then followed up with 143 rushing yards on 22 carries in a road win against the Minnesota Vikings.
That put him at 292 yards from scrimmage, the most by any Falcons player in the first two games of a season since Andre Rison in 1994. Only Jonathan Taylor (313) has more league wide.
Robinson also joined rare company as just the second player in the past 30 years (along with LeSean McCoy in 2013) to record a 100 yard rushing game and a 100 yard receiving game within his team’s first two outings.
A Rapid Ascent to Stardom
GettyFalcons RB Bijan Robinson
What makes Morris’s words resonate is that Bijan Robinson’s production backs them up. Since entering the league as the Falcons’ first round pick in 2023, he’s been one of the NFL’s most dynamic playmakers.
As a rookie, he rushed for 976 yards, added 487 receiving yards, and finished with 1,463 total yards from scrimmage, earning a spot on the All Rookie team.
In 2024, he became a true centerpiece, rushing for 1,456 yards and 14 touchdowns while adding 431 receiving yards to push his total to 1,887. That performance earned him his first Pro Bowl selection and solidified him as one of the league’s premier backs.
Now in 2025, through just two games, he’s already accounted for 292 yards and a touchdown, proving last year’s breakout wasn’t a fluke.
Morris didn’t mince words when asked what makes Robinson different.
“Unique skillset. Unbelievable vision, unbelievable teammate, speed, physicality,” he said. “Like you come across when you first meet him, you think he’s a scat back, but he’s really just everything. He has the ability to get out of the backfield, run receiver-like routes. He can stay in the backfield and block whichever linebacker you decide to bring. He just does it all. And we might line him up at quarterback this week, who knows?”
Robinson’s versatility, production, and consistency are the hallmarks of a player whose ceiling still hasn’t been reached. But more importantly for Atlanta, his dominance could be the engine that drives the Falcons back to the playoffs for the first time since 2017.
NFL Coach Calls Bijan Robinson the ‘Best Player in Football’