Falcons' Bijan Robinson, center, celebrates his TD with Kyle Pitts, left, and Natrone Brooks during Monday night's game vs. the Bills in Atlanta. (AP photo)

ATLANTA (AP) — Bijan Robinson matched a career high with 170 rushing yards and gave Atlanta an early two-touchdown lead with the NFL’s longest run of the season, and the Falcons denied Josh Allen’s comeback attempt to beat the Buffalo Bills 24-14 on Monday night.

Robinson’s career-long 81-yard touchdown run in the second quarter put Atlanta (3-2) ahead 21-7. Allen threw two touchdown passes, including a 16-yarder to Ray Davis to open the second half.

Allen and the Bills (4-2) were stopped on fourth down near midfield late in the third quarter but were provided another opportunity when Greg Rousseau blocker Parker Romo’s 37-yard field-goal attempt early in the fourth.

Allen and the Bills again failed to capitalize. The Falcons secured the win with a 14-play, 5-minute drive that included Michael Penix Jr.’s 23-yard pass to Robinson. Romo’s 33-yard field goal extended the lead to 10 points, and the Bills were left with 1:47 on the clock and no timeouts.

Atlanta linebacker DeAngelo Malone intercepted Allen’s last throw with 41 seconds remaining. Allen completed 15 of 26 passes for 180 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions, giving him four interceptions in his last three games. Last season’s MVP had only one pick in his previous 12 games, including the playoffs.

Bijan Robinson’s 81-yard touchdown run is longest rush in the NFL this season

The Falcons (3-2) leaned on Penix, Robinson and Drake London, who had 10 catches for 158 yards and a touchdown.

Robinson got his 170 yards on 19 carries. He added six catches for 68 yards for a career-best 238 yards from scrimmage. Penix threw for 250 yards, including a 9-yard TD to London. Tyler Allgeier scored the Falcons’ first touchdown on a 21-yard run.

Allen had the support of a strong contingent of Buffalo fans who were so loud that Penix was forced to use a silent count on an early possession.

The Bills’ loss added more reasons to doubt their 4-0 start. Those wins came against teams that are now a combined 3-21: Baltimore (1-5), the New York Jets (0-6), Miami (1-5) and New Orleans (1-5).

Injuries

Bills: WR Joshua Palmer (left ankle) was ruled out early in the second half. … LB Terrel Bernard left with a right ankle injury. … TE Dalton Kincaid was inactive with an oblique injury. The decision was made after he participated in pregame warmups. Kincaid leads the team 287 receiving yards and three touchdowns and had a career-best 108 yards in his last game. DT DaQuan Jones, a starter, was held out after suffering a calf injury in pregame warmups.

Falcons: LT Jake Matthews (ankle) was escorted to the locker room late in the first half and ruled out. … Starting nickel back Billy Bowman Jr. (knee, hamstring) was inactive. In a surprise, WR Ray-Ray McCloud III was a healthy scratch and was on the sideline in street clothes. The move came despite another starter, WR Darnell Mooney (hamstring), getting ruled out on Saturday.

Up next

Bills: After a bye, Buffalo plays another NFC South team when it visits Carolina on Oct. 26.

Falcons: In another prime-time game, Atlanta visits San Francisco on Sunday night.

BEARS 25, COMMANDERS 24

It wasn’t quite the same drama as the Hail Mary that decided these teams’ game a year ago, but Caleb Williams and the Bears did get the better of Jayden Daniels and the Commanders on a final-play score with a 38-yard field goal by new kicker Jake Moody in Landover, Md.

With D’Andre Swift rushing for 108 yards on 14 carries, and grabbing a pair of receptions for 67 yards — including a 55-yard catch-and-run for a touchdown — the Bears (3-2), coming off their bye, extended their winning streak to three games under first-year coach Ben Johnson.

Washington (3-3) continued its pattern of alternating wins and losses in 2025 and flopped with a chance to pull even with the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles atop the NFC East.

The Commanders, so good protecting the ball until now, hurt themselves with three turnovers, matching their total from the first five games.

“You really don’t deserve to win many games when you’re in that space,” Washington coach Dan Quinn said.

That included Jayden Daniels’ first interception of the season, rookie running back Jacory “Bill” Croskey-Merritt’s second fumble in two weeks and, most critical of all, a botched handoff between the two that resulted in a fumble as Washington was trying to run out the clock while up 24-22.

That gave Chicago the ball with a little more than three minutes left, and Williams then led the nine-play, 36-yard closing drive that finished with Moody’s fourth field goal of a rainy night. His teammates mobbed him, then raised up off the ground in a mass celebration on the field.