Revisiting Mixon Contract

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(11-29-2021, 06:25 PM)Au165 Wrote: I saw an interesting stat earlier today regarding the group of big money HB's from this offseason.

When a lot of people talked about not re-signing Mixon this is what they were worried about. While Mixon has been really good, and pretty healthy, the group as a whole has in fact been injury ridden much like the stats tell us usually happens on contract #2. So why does this matter? I saw people mentioning pulling Mixon to save him as much as possible in the blowout, and that is probably the right call, but for this season we should plan to abuse him down the stretch and ride him as much as we can this year and then plan on him most likely getting hurt next season and Evans holding a bigger role.

The big ($12m+ AAV) RB contracts…

CMC - done for year
Henry - out indefinitely
Cook - out indefinitely
Kamara - out injured
Zeke - playing through injury
Aaron Jones - just back from injury
Chubb - missed two games with injury but playing well
Mixon - very good

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) November 29, 2021

My biggest question was why they would pay someone that much if he wasn't going to have a bigger role on the team...and I don't just mean as a receiver.  Many of those teams are run-first.  That is their identity.  The Saints use Kamara as much as a WR as they do a back, ditto CMC.  

Fast forward to 2021, and Mixon's role is growing as the season progresses.  It was like "Establish the deep game, ok...now let's eat underneath while Chase draws everyone deep".  

I absolutely LOVE that they took a deep shot with Higgins, who played that ball PERFECTLY and didn't use any push on the DB at all.  He just turned his back to him and timed the jump perfects.  So, you think you are taking the deep ball away with a double on Chase?  Wrong.  Haha.