“People should expect a lot of great things to come compared to the things I did limping around all last year,” he said. “I feel night and day from last year. I feel more like myself every day.”

Robinson was shot twice in his leg while going out to dinner in Washington, D.C., in the early evening with a friend on Aug. 28. Police said it was an attempted carjacking/robbery. Robinson was shot in his right knee and hip, but he was able to wrestle the gun away from one of his assailants. Two teenagers were sentenced to six and four years — until they turn 21 — respectively, in youth services custody.

Robinson, expected to be Washington’s primary runner, underwent surgery and missed the first four games. He averaged 3.4 yards per carry on his first 108 rushes — before a three-game stretch in which he averaged 5-7 yards per carry and rushed for a combined 290 yards. That’s when Washington started to see the running back they drafted in the third round in 2022; they even watched him run over a Falcons player during one carry. That stretch is when he started to show the vision and one-cut ability that impressed them when he played at Alabama.