Falcons pick up team option for star RB Bijan Robinson in 2027

The Atlanta Falcons exercised their fifth-year option for All-Pro running back Bijan Robinson for the 2027 season on Friday.

Robinson, 24, is coming off a stellar third season with the Falcons in 2025 when he set the franchise mark with 2,298 total yards from scrimmage, which led the NFL. He rushed for 1,478 yards and seven touchdowns, including a league-long 93-yarder, and caught 79 passes for 820 yards and four TDs.

He will earn $11.323 million in base salary in 2027, the club's option year, according to Spotrac. Robinson signed a four-year, $21.9 million contract as a rookie in 2023 which in 2026 will pay him a base salary of $1.1 million, a prorated signing bonus of $3.2 million and a roster bonus of $2.6 million with a cap hit of $6,986,809, per Spotrac.

"He is one of the best players at his position, one of the best players in the league," Atlanta's new general manager Ian Cunningham said at the annual NFL league meetings last month in Phoenix. "I was excited that I had already had the chance to get to know him and start some dialogue with him."

Robinson was voted to the Pro Bowl the last two seasons, was first-team All-Pro in 2025 and was named to the NFL All-Rookie team in 2023.

Atlanta selected Robinson with the eighth overall pick of the 2023 NFL Draft out of Texas.

He has 805 career rushing attempts for 3,910 yards and 25 TDs, and 198 receptions for 1,738 yards and nine TDs in 51 games (50 starts).

"There's no shortage in what he can do for the football team on the field," new head coach Kevin Stefanski said this week. "But also the person that he is off the field and what he brings to our locker room, and to the question earlier about culture and being a player-driven culture, he's a driver of that just because of how he attacks each day."