Can the Falcons run game success in 2022 be replicated?
It goes without saying that the primary strength of the 2022 Falcons was their ability to consistently put together a run game that was productive for them. As one of the best rushing offenses in the league last year, the Falcons seemed to have finally cracked the code of being a team that could still run the ball even when every person in the stadium knew they were going to. They had an identity in physicality and a lot of that is thanks to Tyler Allgeier, Cordarrelle Patterson and Caleb Huntley (as well as the offensive line, too, but more on them later).
Allgeier was the biggest surprise of 2022 for the Falcons, and according to some, the league at large, too. When Patterson went on injured reserve early in the year, Allgeier picked up the rock and never laid it down. He was a force to be reckoned with for the Falcons last year. Patterson and Huntley, too, didn’t miss much of a beat in 2023, either, despite injuries keeping them off the field at various points. Allgeier and Patterson are not going anywhere, and Huntley (despite his season-ending Achilles injury) may not say goodbye to Atlanta just yet, either. So, it leaves the question of whether or not 2022’s run production was the Falcons identity under Smith or a one-year power-up?
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