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Falcons @ Packers

2026 Wk 3 · GB 14, ATL 35

Robinson and London each went for 194 yards as an offense with 16 points all season put up 35 at Lambeau.

FanIQ Research · September 25, 2026 · 5 facts, every one from the play-by-play

Bijan Robinson ran for 194 yards and Drake London caught for 194. No team since 1999 had paired a 190-yard rusher with a 190-yard receiver in one game.

Rare

Atlanta's two 194-yard days

Player	Touches	Yards	TD	Long
Bijan Robinson (rush)	29 carries	194	2	55
Drake London (rec)	9 catches on 10 targets	194	0	68

Closest prior pairings: 150-yard rusher plus 150-yard receiver, same team and game, regular season 1999 to 2026, by combined yards

Season	Wk	Team	Opp	Rusher	Rush yds	Receiver	Rec yds
2015	9	PIT	LV	DeAngelo Williams	170	Antonio Brown	284
2020	17	TEN	HOU	Derrick Henry	250	A.J. Brown	151
2026	3	ATL	GB	Bijan Robinson	194	Drake London	194
2023	3	MIA	DEN	De'Von Achane	203	Tyreek Hill	157
2024	18	ATL	CAR	Bijan Robinson	170	Drake London	187
2020	3	MIN	TEN	Dalvin Cook	181	Justin Jefferson	175
2005	17	KC	CIN	Larry Johnson	201	Eddie Kennison	151
2010	12	KC	SEA	Jamaal Charles	173	Dwayne Bowe	170

Duos with more than one 150/150 game, regular season 1999 to 2026

Rusher	Receiver	Team	Games	When
Bijan Robinson	Drake London	ATL	3	2024 Wk 18, 2025 Wk 6, 2026 Wk 3
De'Von Achane	Tyreek Hill	MIA	2	2023 Wk 3, 2023 Wk 5

Eighteen regular-season games since 1999 have produced a 150-yard rusher and a 150-yard receiver on the same team. Only one, Cook and Jefferson in 2020, had both players above 175, and none had both above 190 until this one. Robinson and London have now done the 150/150 version three times, one more than any other pair in the database.

Why it matters. A 190-yard rusher usually means the defense sold out against the pass, and a 190-yard receiver usually means the opposite. Getting both in the same afternoon says Green Bay never found a way to take either away, and the play list backs it: Robinson's 55-yard run came in the first quarter and London's 68- and 40-yard catches came in the fourth. For Atlanta the repeat matters more than the record. The same two players have now carried three of the franchise's biggest offensive days in 21 months.

Atlanta had scored 16 points all season, the fewest in the league through two weeks. Then it scored 35 at Lambeau.

Anomaly

Fewest points scored through Week 2, 2026 (all 32 teams played twice)

Rank	Team	Points
32	ATL	16
31	PIT	23
30	MIA	26
29	LAC	28
t-27	DEN	30
t-27	NE	30

Atlanta's 2026 results

Week	Opponent	ATL	Opp
1	at PIT	13	20
2	vs CAR	3	34
3	at GB	35	14

Every team since 1999 with 16 or fewer points through Week 2 that then scored 35+ in Week 3

Season	Team	Pts Wk 1-2	Wk 3 result
2016	SEA	15	SEA 37, SF 18 (home)
2016	LA	9	LA 37, TB 32 (away)
2017	SF	12	LA 41, SF 39 (home)
2024	CAR	13	CAR 36, LV 22 (away)
2026	ATL	16	ATL 35, GB 14 (away)

Since 1999, 29 teams have entered Week 3 with 16 or fewer points from their first two games. Five of them scored 35 or more in Week 3, and Atlanta is the fifth. The Falcons more than doubled their season point total in one road game.

Why it matters. Two weeks is a thin sample for an offense, and this is the case for treating early rankings with caution: the same personnel that ranked last in points produced 502 yards on 65 plays here. The cohort table shows the rebound is unusual but not unheard of, roughly one in six such teams. What separates this one is the venue. Two of the other four came at home, and none came against an opponent held to 14 points; this one came at Green Bay, where Atlanta had lost four straight visits.

Green Bay ran the ball 9 times, the fewest in any Packers game since 1999, and one of the nine was an aborted snap.

Anomaly

Pass and run split, this game

Team	Pass plays	Pass yds	Yds/pass play	Run plays	Run yds	Yds/run
GB	54	311	5.76	9	17	1.89
ATL	26	258	9.92	39	244	6.26

Fewest run plays in a Packers game, 1999 to 2026 (all game types)

Game	Score	Run plays	Run yds
2026 Wk 3 vs ATL	ATL 35, GB 14	9	17
1999 Wk 6 at DEN	DEN 31, GB 10	11	21
2004 Wk 5 vs TEN	TEN 48, GB 27	11	35
2010 Super Bowl, PIT (neutral site)	GB 31, PIT 25	11	52
1999 Wk 16 at TB	TB 29, GB 10	12	12

Packers games with 53 or more pass attempts by one passer, regular season 1999 to 2026

Season	Wk	Opp	Passer	Comp	Att	Yds
2015	10	DET	Aaron Rodgers	35	61	333
2005	13	CHI	Brett Favre	31	58	277
2016	7	CHI	Aaron Rodgers	39	56	326
2006	2	NO	Brett Favre	31	55	340
2018	16	NYJ	Aaron Rodgers	37	55	442
2019	17	DET	Aaron Rodgers	27	55	323
2024	4	MIN	Jordan Love	32	54	389
2019	4	PHI	Aaron Rodgers	34	53	422
2026	3	ATL	Jordan Love	28	53	312

Jordan Love threw 53 passes and completed 28 for 312 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception. The nine run plays were four carries each for Kaleb Johnson and MarShawn Lloyd plus Love's aborted snap in the third quarter, which the play log records as a run for no gain. Across 14,612 team-games since 1999, only 50 offenses have finished with 9 or fewer run plays, and none did in 2025.

Why it matters. A 54 to 9 pass-run split is what an offense looks like once it decides the game is a chase, and Green Bay was in that mode early: 42 of its 63 snaps came while trailing by 8 or more. The running game gave it no reason to reconsider, at 1.89 yards a carry against Atlanta's 6.26. The Love attempt total is not itself strange for this franchise, as the table shows, but the pairing of 53 attempts with a single-digit run count is the outlier.

Green Bay's first home loss by 21 or more under Matt LaFleur, and Atlanta's largest margin at Lambeau in the database.

Milestone

Packers home losses by 21+ points, 1999 to 2026

Season	Wk	Opponent	Score	Margin	Head coach
2004	5	TEN	TEN 48, GB 27	21	Mike Sherman
2006	1	CHI	CHI 26, GB 0	26	Mike McCarthy
2006	11	NE	NE 35, GB 0	35	Mike McCarthy
2006	13	NYJ	NYJ 38, GB 10	28	Mike McCarthy
2017	11	BAL	BAL 23, GB 0	23	Mike McCarthy
2018	17	DET	DET 31, GB 0	31	Joe Philbin
2026	3	ATL	ATL 35, GB 14	21	Matt LaFleur

Every Falcons visit to Green Bay, 1999 to 2026

Season	Round	GB	ATL	ATL margin
2001	Wk 10	20	23	+3
2002	Wk 1	37	34	-3
2002	Wild Card	7	27	+20
2008	Wk 5	24	27	+3
2013	Wk 14	22	21	-1
2014	Wk 14	43	37	-6
2018	Wk 14	34	20	-14
2020	Wk 4	30	16	-14
2026	Wk 3	14	35	+21

Before this game, the widest home defeat of the LaFleur era was 17 points, twice. The last time Green Bay lost at home by three touchdowns was the 2018 finale under interim coach Joe Philbin. For Atlanta, this is a fourth win in nine trips to Green Bay and the first since 2008; the previous four visits were all losses, and the 21-point margin beats the 20-point Wild Card win from the 2002 season.

Why it matters. Home blowouts are the rarest kind of loss for a stable program: seven in 28 seasons for Green Bay, and none in LaFleur's first seven. That makes this a data point about the 2026 Packers rather than about Lambeau. The Atlanta side is the more surprising line: the franchise had not won in Green Bay in 18 years, and its three previous wins there were by 3, 20 and 3 points.

The league's worst offense through two weeks at minus 0.40 EPA per play produced plus 0.33 in this game.

Comparison

Offensive EPA per play, 2026 Weeks 1 and 2, bottom 6 of 32

Rank	Team	Plays	EPA/play	Success%
32	ATL	124	-0.403	37.1%
31	PIT	128	-0.330	35.2%
30	LAC	113	-0.253	37.2%
29	GB	117	-0.195	35.9%
28	TB	113	-0.164	42.5%
27	MIA	106	-0.112	37.7%

Atlanta offense, game by game, 2026

Game	Plays	EPA/play	Success%	Yards
Wk 1 at PIT	57	-0.321	38.6%	238
Wk 2 vs CAR	67	-0.473	35.8%	286
Wk 3 at GB	65	+0.332	64.6%	502

Both offenses in this game

Team	Plays	EPA/play	Success%	Yards	First downs	3rd down
ATL	65	+0.332	64.6%	502	23	6 of 10
GB	63	+0.014	39.7%	328	17	6 of 15

Atlanta ranked 32nd of 32 in EPA per play after two weeks. Green Bay ranked 29th. One of them moved: the Falcons' plus 0.332 in this game is a swing of about 0.74 per play from their two-week baseline, and their 64.6 percent success rate means nearly two of every three snaps gained what the down called for. For context, Atlanta's 2025 regular season came in at minus 0.021, 24th in the league.

Why it matters. The gap between Atlanta's baseline and this game is far too large to be noise on 65 plays, so the useful read is what changed. The pass-run split and the two 194-yard days point at the same thing: the Falcons stopped needing third down. Twenty-three first downs on 65 snaps and a 6 of 10 third-down rate mean drives were built on early-down gains, which is exactly the profile the Weeks 1 and 2 offense lacked at 37 percent success. Whether it holds against a healthier defense is the open question; the direction is not.

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