Bijan Robinson is one reason to believe in the Atlanta Falcons future. Kevin C. Cox / Getty ImagesAug. 31, 2026 2:00 pm EDT Updated “The Athletic Football Show” is previewing all 32 teams leading up to the start of the 2026 NFL season. Below are select quotes from the show’s preview of the Atlanta Falcons. The quotes are edited for clarity. You can watch the whole preview on YouTube and in the embedded video below, or listen to the full NFC South preview wherever you get your podcasts.Derrik Klassen on what about the Falcons most excites him: Their three-headed monster on offense is as good as anybody as far as the skill players go. Drake London, Bijan Robinson, Kyle Pitts. Obviously, Robinson can make an argument he’s the best running back in the league. Drake London, I think you can make a case as a top-10 wide receiver in the league. I do believe that some of the stuff that we saw from Pitts last year was pretty real. I still think he’s going to be a bit of a volatile player because of some of the blocking stuff, but I’m willing to buy that like some of the weird stuff in the middle of his career, he just wasn’t healthy. And I’m willing to believe that like what we saw as a rookie and what we saw last year, he can really do that and have that level of giddyup. And so if you’ve got these three skill players that at any time can just give you a huge play. I’m going to be tuning into that.Dave Helman on what he’s watching the first month of the season: The weirdest quarterback room in the NFL. It’s weirder than Cleveland because at the end of the day, very cynically, Cleveland makes sense. A bad quarterback on an impossibly bad contract is playing out the string because people there want that to happen. That makes sense. I don’t know what to do with the Atlanta quarterback situation. If you were following the breadcrumbs, it made sense to assume Tua Tagovailoa would be the starter here and maybe he still will be, but the degree to which he has crumbled without anything actually happening (is shocking). And by the way, the guy who might take the job from him has dealt with a lot of injury issues and he just got back to practice a week ago. So I don’t know what to do with it. I’m not very confident it’s going to be good, at least not right away. It’s very bizarre.