Bengals take the plunge, select RB Joe Mixon

By PFF.com
Posted Apr 28, 2017 4:48 pm EDT • Cincinnati Bengals

The Bengals selected Oklahoma RB Joe Mixon with their second-round pick Friday night.
Mixon ranked third among all FBS running backs with an 88.1 overall grade in 2016.
He ranked 10th among draft-eligible running backs with a 95.5 elusive rating (measures the impact of a runner with the ball in his hands independent of the blocking in front of him); he forced a missed tackle once for every 3.9 offensive touches.
Mixon earned 57.3 percent of his yards on 22 runs that went for at least 15 yards, the highest rate among draft-eligible running backs.
He ranked second among 82 qualified HBs with an average of 2.83 yards per route run.
On talent alone, Mixon likely would have gone earlier in the draft, but off-field issues caused him to slip.

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