{"id":674346,"date":"2026-01-13T16:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/674346\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:03:14","slug":"how-falcons-running-backs-played-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/674346\/","title":{"rendered":"How Falcons\u2019 running backs played in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Players under contract for 2026:<\/p>\n

\n 2026 Free agents:<\/p>\n

\n Biggest question facing the position group in 2026:<\/p>\n

Will the Falcons find a way to keep Allgeier?<\/p>\n

Atlanta drafted Allgeier in 2022 with a fifth-round pick. He was easily the Falcons’ leading rusher that season with 210 carries for 1,035 yards, which set the franchise record for most rushing yards by a rookie<\/a>. However, he hasn’t exactly come close to those totals since then.<\/p>\n

In 2023, the Falcons drafted running back Bijan Robinson with a first-round pick, and he quickly became Atlanta’s No. 1 rusher. Allgeier became the secondary, albeit more physical, option in a 1-2 punch ground attack.<\/p>\n

Now, entering 2026, Allgeier is set to become a free agent. He was asked after the Falcons’ Week 18 win against the New Orleans Saints<\/a> whether he wants to be back in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

“We’ll see,” Allgeier said. “I don’t know. That’s (up to) the front office, I guess. It’s my first time being a free agent, so it should be very interesting what happens.”<\/p>\n

Very interesting indeed, especially if another team comes around with an opportunity for Allgeier to claim the top spot on a depth chart.<\/p>\n

“I always had my eyes on being the starter,” he said. “Obviously, when we had B come in, that kind of diminished it. But I think I always had the mindset of being a starter. … We’ve trained ourselves to be a starter, so that’s the goal, but who knows? We’ll see if we put enough film (together) to be able to say that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Players under contract for 2026: 2026 Free agents: Biggest question facing the position group in 2026: Will the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[98236,223,254,2554,4127,224,7,31039,88,6,1024,11410],"class_list":["post-674346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-falcons","tag-2025-position-review","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-atlantafalcons","tag-bijan-robinson","tag-falcons","tag-football","tag-nathan-carter","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-terrin-waack","tag-tyler-allgeier"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115888639431781464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}