Bijan Robinson has been endlessly lauded for his excellence, and that\u2019s all well-deserved. Bijan led the NFL in scrimmage yards by over 150 yards last year, was behind only Christian McCaffrey for receiving yards from a running back, and reeled off some of the most impressive runs of any back in 2025. He\u2019s a special player, and very soon, he\u2019s going to be paid like one.<\/p>\n
That was obvious, but ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter made it clear that the expectation is that Bijan is going to get a lucrative extension this offseason in a recent episode of his podcast. Bijan was mentioned in the same breath as Jahmyr Gibbs and De\u2019Von Achane as backs set to get paid; you can see the discussion starting at about 8:30 in this video.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t pretend to know what the deal will look like, but Bijan will be the best paid running back in the NFL or #2 behind Gibbs sometime between now and the start of the season, if you believe some combination of Schefter and common sense. The Falcons are not going to let Bijan play out what\u2019s likely to be another tremendous season in a running back-friendly offense led by Kevin Stefanski and Tommy Rees and then try to negotiate a mega deal, or slap a tag on him even though the running back tag is more manageable than it is for some other positions. They\u2019re going to try to lock in something like a four year pact while Robinson is in his prime, and do so in such a way that they can stagger the cap hits to facilitate spending in, say, 2027 when they\u2019ll want to be able to do so.<\/p>\n
Regardless, the smart money is on Robinson starting the 2026 season with an extension as he looks to continue to sprint his way up the team\u2019s all-time leaderboards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bijan Robinson has been endlessly lauded for his excellence, and that\u2019s all well-deserved. Bijan led the NFL in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2591,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-833676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons-news","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116292087214450643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833676","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=833676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}