December 27, 2023, on TheRinger.com
https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2023/12/27/24016232/bijan-robinson-atlanta-falcons-nfl-running-backs
Bijan Robinson almost always has a football in his hands. It’s his comfort, his connection to home. The moment practice ends at the Atlanta Falcons facility, he rushes to the on-site barber, squeezing in a quick haircut. He smiles, on this December afternoon, recalling a story passed down by his family: He carried a football with him to his first haircut. Unable to sit still, 1-year-old Bijan kept finding targets in the barbershop. “I was throwing the football with everybody I saw,” he says.
Robinson even regularly sneaked his football into church as a young boy, deviating from his duties as a drummer for the congregation. “Bijan! Put down that football!” his grandparents Cleo and Gerri Robinson would say. One day, Pastor Joseph Ellis, a family friend, intervened. For months, he saw the glow in little Bijan’s eyes, the way he cradled the ball like it was a newborn. (READ FULL STORY HERE).
Mirin Fader 