Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon has been in the news recently after taking a pay cut for the remainder of his contract, the first time the Bengals have successfully restructured a deal with a player.
Now that Mixon will be staying with the team, Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com looked into how far along Mixon is into climbing some Bengals all-time leaderboards going into his seventh season.
Here’s what he found:
With 622 yards he’ll become just the third Bengal to rush for 6,000 career yards behind Corey Dillon (8,061) and James Brooks (6,447). On his 128th carry of the season, he’ll have 1,442 career carries, more than anybody in Bengals history but Dillon’s 1,865. With a yearly average of 896 yards on 219 carries, the milestones are well in reach.
With 5,378 yards, Mixon needs just 44 to pass Pete Johnson into fourth place on the club’s all-time rushing list behind Dillon, Brooks and Rudi Johnson (5,742). He is already one of four Bengals with three or more 1,000-yard rushing seasons with Dillon, Brooks, Rudi Johnson and Cedric Benson. Another 1,000-yarder would be his fourth and only Dillon (six) would have more.
Mixon has been everything the Bengals have hoped for on the field when they drafted him in the second round of the 2017 NFL draft, and it shows with how he has been able to cement his name in Bengals history.
