Last season, Joe Mixon may not have been a league winner and may not have had the highest upside of any running back you were trotting out on a weekly basis, but one thing Joe Mixon did do was stay pretty darn consistent. Last season, Joe Mixon only had four games where he finished lower than a running back two. Given that his ADP for the first time in a couple of years wasn't super high, he was actually returning exactly the type of value that you looked for when you drafted him.
If you're one of those owners who are just never thankful for decent performances and you want more, more, more from your team, Joe Mixon was not your guy. But he got the job done. If you put Joe Mixon in your lineup, you were not losing weeks because of him. Of those four performances where he finished lower than an RB2, you could have flexed him in all of those games. Joe Mixon was a top-36 running back every single week last season, so even if you didn't start him at RB1 or RB2, if you flexed him, he gave you exactly that type of value.
Now, the Houston Texans wanted Joe Mixon. I've brought this point up a few times this offseason. Joe Mixon was set to be released. Houston stepped in before he could hit the free market, though, after all of the top running backs had been signed and traded a pick to bring him in. Then they restructured his contract and gave him a new three-year deal to keep him in Houston. That's the definition of wanting a player. Most of the free agent running backs had been signed. If Joe Mixon had hit free agency, more than likely, there wouldn't have been a ton of teams lining up to try and bring him in. Houston didn't want that; Houston wanted him in their backfield.
Now, he's going to be playing with one of the better offenses that we have seen him play with in quite a while. I don't care what you say about Cincinnati or about their team going to the Super Bowl. Houston this year has a better offensive line than Joe Mixon has ever run behind at Cincinnati. C.J. Stroud is comparable to Joe Burrow, and they are loaded with weapons at every other position on the offensive side of the ball. Give me Joe Mixon to have an absolutely fantastic season once again. Maybe he is just a really safe RB2 once again, but he will probably bring some low-end RB1 upside along with him.
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