Mixon contract restructure finalizing

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(07-15-2023, 01:10 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Rudi Johnson was cooked after his age 27 season.

Chris Johnson was never good after his age 27 season.
Larry Johnson was never good after his age 27 season.
Ezekiel Elliott seems cooked after his age 26 season.
LeSean McCoy was never the same RB after his age 28 season.
Marshawn Lynch was never good after his age 28 season.
DeMarco Murray was never good after his age 28 season.
Maurice Jones-Drew's last good season was his age 26 season.
Ray Rice was done after his age 25 season.
Arian Foster was done after his age 28 season.
LaDainian Tomlinson was a much much worse RB after his age 28 season.
Jamal Lewis was never good again after his age 28 season.

Just pulling names out there, but the list of RBs who are still as good past age 28 isn't huge and it just starts dwindling even quicker from there. 28 is basically the end of the line for a lot of RBs. There are obviously some exceptions, but even those guys normally got worse, they just had a lot more room to decline before passing the line to becoming terrible. Joe Mixon is already at that line and has no more room go to down.


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Except when it comes to effort in pass blocking.   

Did you know almost everyone you listed is top 50 all time for most rush attempts in nfl through 6 years.

Joe Mixon has 1300 attempts. By comparison

LT had over 2000
Jamal Lewis 1800
CJ2k 1750
Zeke 1650

Not saying Mixon isn’t on the decline, but (many) of the ones you mentioned were used and abused.