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(09-18-2023, 10:42 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: It's hard to say, really. We have a lot of data on Mixon at this point and he has never ran like this in his career. My initial reaction is that we are seeing an early outlier performance and he will regress to his mean. However, he has definitely earned the right to be fed more carries and see how he works. Here are his career elusiveness stats. You can see how far ahead of everything 2023 is so far.

That's probably it, but it is worth noting that 2019 was his 3rd year and afterwards he was eligible for extension and peaked just in time to get paid. Then after he got paid he dipped for another 3 years. 

Now he knows with all the off-the-field stuff and pay cut he's hanging in the NFL by a thread and needs to reassert why he should be kept around. He's also playing for a couple million dollars in incentives.