Mixon's Migrane Should Be Good Now

[BengalChris]

Well, it's a done deal, so it doesn't much matter now if it's a good deal or a bad deal.

I thought Hart's deal was bad for the team and still do. I thought Gio was overpaid and still do. There's Kirkpatrick's contract, which I thought was overpaid and still do. But they are done and the team even had to eat some of Kirkpatrick's.

Of course, they go and lowball Whit. Many people on this site saw that as a mistake right off the bat.

But I don't think this Mixon contract is one that will hurt the team. They've got 4 years with a relatively inexpensive starting QB.

I just looked over the contracts and here's some that stood out to me.

Uzomah who makes $5.88M this year and $6.33M next season. He had 242 yards receiving last year and he started all 16 games. That's $2.43M per 100 yards.

Uzomah's backup Drew Sample had 30 yards receiving while playing in 9 games and makes 1.25M this year. That's 4.17M per 100 yards. Of course, he was rookie and he was over drafted and the coaches have no idea how to use TEs in the passing game.

Gio makes 4.66M this year and rushed for a whopping 170 yards last season - that's $2.7M per 100 yards.

Mixon rushed for 1137 yards and will make $4.3M the year. That's 378K per 100 yards. His salary in 2021 will be $10.7M which would be 941K per 100 yards. Still a bargain compared the Gio's and Uzomahs of the world.

Next season Mixon will make less than Geno, Carlos, Reader and Waynes. Mixon will be the highest paid offensive player on the team with Boyd coming in second and Burrow third. Waynes is currently slated to be the highest paid Bengal next season at $16M, yikes.