Falcons running back Bijan Robinson was already leading the NFL in yards from scrimmage this season before Thursday night, when he gained 93 rushing yards and 82 receiving yards and helped his team pull off an upset in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n
Robinson now has an NFL-high 1,858 yards from scrimmage with three games left in the season, and his head coach, Raheem Morris, says it\u2019s a shame that such a great player isn\u2019t heading for the playoffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s the best player in the NFL. Sorry you guys won\u2019t get a chance to watch him in the postseason,\u201d Morris said. \u201cHe\u2019s carrying everybody\u2019s livelihood on his back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robinson lost a fumble that set up a Buccaneers touchdown and gave Tampa Bay a 28-14 lead in the fourth quarter. That could have been very costly for the Falcons, but Morris said no one in Atlanta doubts Robinson, who scored a touchdown on the Falcons\u2019 next possession to begin their comeback in a game they won 29-28.<\/p>\n
The Falcons are 5-9 and already eliminated from playoff contention, but Robinson may be the NFL\u2019s best running back, as he showed again on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falcons running back Bijan Robinson was already leading the NFL in yards from scrimmage this season before Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-342378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}