Why is Joe Mixon under appreciated?

[SunsetBengal]

(12-12-2023, 04:15 PM)NUGDUKWE Wrote: You can't hurt your ypc if they don't trust and give you the ball in short yardage. So there is that. Also Samaje never came close to Mixons carries and it seemed to trend that the more carries he got his ypc went down. So there is that as well. 

Just looking at the 3 years that Perine was with the Bengals 2020-2022, Perine averaged 4.42/carry on 213 carries while Mixon averaged 3.94/carry on 621 carries.  Perine achieved a half yard/carry better behind the same OL.