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• Week 5Oct 12, 2026

  Brian Robinson — Week 5: Seven Carries, 16 Yards

  Robinson ran 7 times for 16 yards against the Ravens, none of them a successful run by expected points, in a 30-23 overtime loss in Atlanta.

• Week 4Oct 7, 2026

  Brian Robinson — Week 4: Three Short Touchdowns

  Robinson ran 14 times for 62 yards and 3 touchdowns against the Saints, from the 4, the 8 and the 11, after scoring once in Weeks 1 through 3, in a 45-24 win.

• Week 3Sep 26, 2026

  Brian Robinson — Week 3: Ten Carries and a Third-and-One Score

  Robinson carried 10 times for 50 yards and his first touchdown of the season, a 7-yard run on third and one from the Green Bay 7 with 3:41 left in the third quarter that made it 24–7. He had no targets and opened the game with a 24-yard kickoff return. Bijan Robinson carried 29 times on a night Atlanta ran 39, in a 35–14 win over the Packers.

• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Brian Robinson — Week 2: Eleven Carries, Eight After Halftime

  Robinson carried 11 times for 51 yards and caught both of his targets for 16, his first targets of the season, including a 12-yard catch on third and seven. Eight of the 11 carries came after halftime, and he had all five running-back carries in the fourth quarter while Bijan Robinson had none, in a 34–3 loss to the Panthers.

• Week 1Sep 14, 2026

  Brian Robinson — Week 1: Nine Carries and a Forty-Yard Kickoff Return

  Robinson carried nine times for thirty-one yards Sunday, no targets, the longest a fourteen-yarder on the first snap after T.J. Watt's pick-six, and opened the second half by returning the kickoff forty yards from the Atlanta three to the forty-three. Bijan Robinson carried twenty-one times on a day the Falcons ran thirty-one, in a 20–13 loss to the Steelers.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Brian Robinson Camp Update — August 31: The first team's lone touchdown was his

  Robinson punched in a three-yard score against Miami, the only touchdown the first-team offense managed in the finale, then put the ball on the ground two drives later. Cut day left him as the only back on the roster behind Bijan Robinson.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Brian Robinson Camp Update — August 23: Sat the rout while Goodson made noise

  Brian Robinson Junior sat Saturday's thirty-four-to-six win with the rest of the starters while Tyler Goodson ripped a forty-nine-yard touchdown behind him. The complement job still looks like his; the backfield behind it got louder.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Brian Robinson Camp Update — August 16: Two Series With the Starters While Bijan Watched

  Brian Robinson Junior worked the first two series with Atlanta's first-team offense against Denver. That is the complement job showing up on tape, with one honest caveat: the man he complements did not play.

• 2026 PreviewJul 3, 2026

  Brian Robinson Jr. 2026 Season Preview — what repeats, what doesn't

  Robinson finished RB61 across 17 games with 3.4 half-PPR points per game, a season built more on roster presence than a featured backfield role. His 85.3% availability rate from 2021–25 shows he stays on the field, but at those per-game numbers the opportunity simply wasn't there to sustain a meaningful workload.

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  Brian Robinson Jr. spent last season as insurance that never got cashed — a hundred touches behind Christian McCaffrey — and the market is now asking pick one-66 for the version of him that existed before that. Running back 52 is a price about 20-22 through 24. The pattern library has opinions about backs whose best evidence is three years old.

  The season, his one in San Francisco: all 17 games, 92 carries for 400 yards — 4.3 a carry — eight catches, two touchdowns. 3.4 Half-PPR points a game, 60-ninth among backs per game, 60-first in total. Washington traded him to the Niners in late August for a sixth-round pick, and the job he backed up never came open: McCaffrey played the full season. It was a career-low everything, in a role designed to produce exactly that.

  The career before it is the actual résumé: three straight years within 70 yards of 800 rushing — seven 97, seven 33, seven 99 — at nine-oh, 12-oh, and 10-seven points a game as Washington's hammer. Double-digit rates in two of three years, and every one of those seasons cleared the RB52 slot's going rate of 5.6 with room to spare. That back was a real starter.

  The pattern read: this is career year five, so our aging cohort takes him — −1-point-oh-nine a game, n of 71, directional, the library's weakest, stated as such. But run it straight and the problem compounds: fade last year's three-four and you land at two-three, which prices out in the seventies. The price is 52. The market isn't paying for last year at all — it's paying for 23 24, faded gently. Our library has no pattern for "ignore the most recent season," and the aging rule points the wrong way for a player who needs you to.

  The situation is a homecoming to a familiar job description. Atlanta signed him in late March — one year, two and a half million, under 800000 guaranteed, per ESPN and Spotrac — to be Bijan Robinson's complement, the role Tyler Allgeier vacated for Arizona. The regime is new: Kevin Stefanski, out in Cleveland in early January and hired in Atlanta within two weeks, with Tommy Rees calling plays, per the team site. The July read from the Atlanta beat is a usage plan mirroring the old Bijan-and-Allgeier blend, per the AJC. Worth pricing: that complement job paid Allgeier five-nine to seven-six points a game across the last three seasons — a real floor, and a real ceiling. Tyler Goodson rounds out the room on an eight-and-nine team.

  The price: RB52 at pick one-66 for last year's RB69, with an aging fade that lands the recent evidence in the seventies. Our verdict: lean, overpriced. History leans rather than shouts for exactly one reason: the 20-25 sample was a backup role behind the league's most fed back, and a role that suppressed isn't a skill that vanished. The caveat, spoken plainly: if the Washington version shows up in the Allgeier job, six-to-seven points a game is right there — which is roughly this price, and the lean folds. What the lean is really saying is that you're paying midpoint price for the bull case.

  Watch the preseason carry split with Bijan Robinson — the blend the beat promises has a wide range of blends inside it — and the receiving usage, because eight catches a season is the one hole in this profile that the format punishes. Watch the goal-line package too; short yardage is where this profile pays its rent. Two Robinsons, one ball; the arithmetic of that sentence is the whole season. He's one of your guys? This show covers your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.

• 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

  Brian Robinson 2025 Season in Review

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  Brian Robinson finished 2025 as the number 63 running back in total PPR scoring and the number 71 in per-game scoring among backs with at least six games played. That tells you almost everything about the year. Robinson landed in Atlanta and walked into a backfield where Bijan Robinson is the entire show. The role he carved out? Tiny. A change-of-pace body who suited up all 17 games but barely moved the needle — two rushing touchdowns all year, zero receiving. Deep-bench, do-not-rely-on-him profile in an offense that already had its bell cow.

  Now let's dig into the numbers, because the volume story is the whole story. Robinson got 92 carries across 17 games — five and a half a game — for 400 yards at a tick over four-and-a-third per attempt. In the passing game, he was a ghost: 12 targets, 8 catches, 25 yards, a two percent target share. Compare that to Bijan in front of him — 287 carries, 1,478 yards, 79 catches on 103 targets — and you see exactly how thin the leftovers were. The per-game average was 3.7 PPR, and the consistency was brutal in a flat-line way: Robinson cleared 10 PPR exactly twice all season — back-to-back in Weeks 9 and 10 against the Patriots and Colts, both touchdown games — and finished with five points or fewer in 14 of his 17 appearances, including a zero in the Week 8 Miami blowout and a 0.9 in the Week 18 finale against the Saints. This wasn't boom-or-bust. This was floor-only. And the floor was in the basement.

  The defining beat of Robinson's fantasy year: the only weeks he mattered were the two weeks he found the end zone. Week 9 at New England — 5 carries, 53 yards, a touchdown, 11.3 PPR. Week 10 at Indianapolis — 8 carries, 41 yards, another rushing score, 11.5 PPR. Outside that two-game window, touchdown or bust, there was nothing to roster. That's the verdict in two data points.