The hype machine for Bijan Robinson was out of control, naturally. After a magical career at Texas that saw him selected at No. 8 by the Atlanta Falcons, expectations were sky-high for a player I think most of us felt was genuinely special. Living up to that in year one was going to be tough, and it’s fair to argue that Robinson wasn’t quite the game-changing talent on a week-to-week basis we hoped for.
If the rookie season was not quite the tour de force we imagined, it was still a damn good season, especially given his uneven usage in Arthur Smith’s maddening offense.