FLOWERY BRANCH — Falcons running backs Bijan Robinson and Tyler Allgeier, who are expected to carry the bulk of the team’s rushing load in 2023, have bonded over their love of Anime, Japanese cartoons.
“He loves Anime,” Robinson said. “I like Anime too, but like, I feel like people that like anime, I feel like they play different on the field. I do. Because they get in their inner mode that you just like go into. You don’t (have) to say a word. When something bad happens, you’re just like getting riled up, turned up.
“But I think that with me and him, we’re the nicest guys. We don’t say (anything) on the field. But you can tell like with how we run and how we attack defenders, that it all ties into it.”
Allgeier, who was a fifth-round pick out of Brigham Young, rushed for 1,035 yards last season as a rookie, breaking the 43-year-old rookie rushing mark set by William Andrews (1,023 yards in 15 games, 1979). Robinson, after starring at Texas, was selected with the eighth overall pick in the 2023 draft.
“We just talked about it when we were driving to the stadium on Thursday,” Robinson said. “He was telling me everything about it. He visited Disneyland out there. I want to go to Disneyland out there. He said he had a good time when he went out there.”