It’s Monday night, 15 of the 16 Week 2 games have been played, and now we get the Eagles and Falcons on Monday Night Football. It feels like a great way to cap off Week 2, so without wasting any time, let’s get into my favorite props tonight.
Here are our favorite props for tonight’s Falcons vs. Eagles game!
Bijan Robinson o69.5 Rushing Yards (-114) via BetOnline
Everyone’s still awaiting that Bijan breakout game, is today finally the day?
Take a deep breath, because we’re betting on Bijan Robinson today.
I don’t think there’s ever been a single player to ever play a pro sport that has lead so many bettors to both hate him and believe in him every single week.
Since Week 1 of the 2023/24 Season, people have been excited about the potential Robinson brings to the Falcons and to our betting slips. He’s easily the most dynamic running back in his class, and was one of the only running backs to get the starting role, right from the jump.
In his rookie campaign, Bijan rushed for 976 yards, caught 58 passes for 487 yards, but scored just 8 total touchdowns all year. The numbers don’t look terrible, but if you watched Bijan run last year, you know he was capable of so much more.
In Week 1, this year, Bijan recorded 18 carries for 68 yards on the ground (3.8 YPC) and he caught all 5 of his targets for 43 yards. He failed to get into the endzone and broke the hearts of bettors everywhere.
This week he faces off with a Eagles team who just gave up 5.3 yards per carry to Josh Jacobs. The Eagles faced off with the Packers in Brazil last Friday, giving up 88 yards on 16 carries but no touchdowns.
Atlanta ran the ball 22 times last week, 18 of those carries went to Bijan Robinson; he was on the field for 89% of the Falcons offensive snaps, and he touched the ball 23 total times.
Head Coach Raheem Morris is making an efford to work Bijan into this offense is a big way, they just faced one of the toughest defenses in the NFL last week.
Philadelphia’s front 7 lost some key pieces this off-season; Reddick is now a Jet and the Legend, Fletcher Cox, has since retired. It was evident how much they were missed in Week 1, look for Bijan to take advantage today.
Bijan Robinson o69.5 Rushing Yards (-114) via BetOnline
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Jalen Hurts o41.5 Rushing Yards (-114) via BetOnline
Jalen Hurts ran the ball 13 times but was held to just 2.5 yards per carry.
The Falcons’ fired Head Coach, Arthur Smith in the off-season; a move that surprised no one. Smith was not only underutilizing the talents of Bijan, but their tight end Kyle Pitts and wide receiver, Drake London.
The Falcons had enough and replaced Smith with former defensive co-ordinator for the Rams; Raheem Morris.
Morris’ first game as a Head Coach in the NFL came against one of the best to ever do it, Mike Tomlin. The Falcons would hold the Steelers to just 270 total yards of offense and just 16 total points.
Unfortunately the Falcons would only score 15 points and end up losing Morris’ debut by just a singular point. The Falcons’ defense looked every bit as good as it did last year, holding Fields to 133 yards through the air and holding both Najee Harris and Jaylen Warren to 3.5 YPC.
The Falcons run defense held running backs to just 3.8 yards per carry last year, ranking top 8 in the league. The problem was the Falcons were always playing from behind, so they also finished top 8 in rushing attempts allowed.
As good as they were against running backs, they struggled just as much with mobile quarterbacks. Last week the Falcons allowed Fields to run for 57 yards and average 4.1 yards per carry. Last year, the Falcons ranked bottom 7 in rushing yards allowed to quarterbacks; allowing a 4.6 yards per carry average.
The Falcons gave up 6 touchdowns to opposing QBs last year, ranked 2nd last. Hurts has played the Falcons just once in his career, back in 2021 he recorded 7 rushing attempts for 62 yards and threw 3 touchdowns.
Different Falcons team, different Eagles team. We’re rolling with Hurts today because he’s going to struggle moving the ball threw the air against this Falcons’ secondary and he’ll need to use his legs to move the chains.
Jalen Hurts o41. Rushing Yards (-114) via BetOnline
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To Recap, NFL Bets for September 16th, 2024:
We’ve got props in this Monday Night Football Game between the Falcons and the Eagles. We’re rolling with Bijan Robinson o69.5 Rushing Yards (-114) and Jalen Hurts o41. Rushing Yards (-114); both via BetOnline.
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