Bijan has 103 carries to Tyler’s 116.
Bijan is 22nd in rushing attempts, and is 41st in redzone rushing attempts (seriously what the actual fuck).
It is absolutely criminal his usage. Even if he was a 7th round pick, with that production, I would expect him to be RB1, but the EIGHTH pick to be used like this is shocking.
I cannot comprehend what Arthur Smith thinks is best for the team, when our 3 best offensive skill positions are basically just used as decoys.
Any Falcons fan could tell you that Kyle Pitts would be 1st team all pro on most teams, the man catches literally anything and is always open, but nah, Jonnu Smith is our guy.
You don’t take a RB that high if you aren’t planning on running them into the ground while they’re useful
I’ve just assumed that Arthur Smith didn’t want Bijan with that pick and is sparingly using him to prove his point somehow. He’s pulling an Art Howe from Moneyball.
This actually makes the most sense to me
I mean, I disagree
you don’t draft a player that high just to run them into the ground when you’re QB options are Desmond Ridder or Taylor Heinecke. If Bijan truly is a “generational” RB, it makes sense to use him sparingly if you feel like you don’t really have a great chance to make a run. You don’t have to necessarily wait until his second contract…they could have a better QB option in years 3-4 of his rookie contract
Yup, 5th year option, franchise, flush……
Do runningbacks quickly lose production due to age or the physical impact of hundreds of hits?
Do runningbacks burn out or fade away?
Following this team is mentally exhausting and draining man. So frustrating, we have talent now, use it
Embarrassing amount of people in here defending Arthur Smith. You get the ball to your best guys period. It’s what the best coaches in the league do and it’s not complicated
My only explanation is that it’s actually the year 2199, and billionaire Arthur Smith is playing Madden, and we’re all just characters in his own personal Matrix.
Jonnu Smith is his create-a-character.
Who needs first round talent when you have mid to late round players?
r/arthursmith
Bijan is RB1 cause of his dual threat capability
It’s just Arthur Smith is a dumbass who doesn’t use both of them properly
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It’s so funny to me all the people in off-season clamoring that RBs don’t get second contracts that are lucrative, 1 factor is that they are overused in their rookies years and are burnt out after 2 years
A reminder Falcons could have had Micah Parsons and Jalen Carter but instead opted to draft a TE2 and RB2
As a Longhorn, this tells me that Arthur Smith is a dumbass who never saw Bijan play in college.
For those that say “he was always going to be used this way”, you could have gotten basically the exact same production with a much cheaper draft pick. If you’re going to use a RB in a committee or as a decoy that’s perfectly fine, but you can get that from a mid or late round pick. It’s not fine to blow the number 8 pick on something like that.
Have we considered he may be 5th in YPC because he’s RB2? Like how Felix Jones used to average 5+ YPC for the Cowboys while being RB2 for Marion Barber but couldn’t keep up the pace when moved to the starting lineup?
I don’t think a 13 carry difference over the course of half a season makes him an “RB2.” It’s just a rotation that splits carries fairly evenly so that neither get tired out at one of the most physical positions in the game.
The lack of red zone attempts may just be explained by the Falcons not being in the red zone a lot.
Commanders certainly want to, I feel like McLaurin and Dotson were dropping so many balls they got the memo but Sam didn’t cut he’s got that dawg in him