Joe Mixon is one of the most consistent running backs of his generation — a player whose career coefficient of variation places him among the most reliable performers at the position. Year in, year out, Mixon delivered without dramatic peaks or valleys — the kind of player who earns trust, not headlines.

On the boards· Appears on 2 boards

RBHOU#28RSN

Joe Mixon

2× Pro BowlTop 7% all-time RBsIron Man🌅 Early Bloomer · 2018 Team Carrier · #56

Height6'1"

Weight

Career Value · VORP

155 career value over replacement — #618 all-time of 4,695. 19.4/season above a replacement-level RB.

Career Profile

5 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks 2-phase playertwo-way Mr. ReliableCV 0.14

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #48 (Rd 2) · CIN · 2017 · +23.8 vs expected KV-H

73actual

49.2 expected · Δ+23.8

💔+24.8 stolen VORP·1.28 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #56 of 568 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

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Total Score

121

3 qualifying seasons

2019 CIN·2 team wins#9

Rushing Yards · 1,137 · score 85

2018 CIN·6 team wins#4

Rushing Yards · 1,168 · score 22

2018 CIN·6 team wins#12

Rushing Touchdowns · 8 · score 14

All-Time Standing

how this career measures against the all-time greats at the position

Depth

of 100

Reached 40% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader — a rotational/depth all-time profile at the position.

40% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader40

2 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader67

A 0–100 scale where 100 = matched the all-time leader at this position. Built only from visible encyclopedia data — career production vs. the all-time leader, plus efficiency (EPA) and comparable-player confidence — so it's a transparent context score, not a subjective rating. Tiers: Elite ≥ 85 · Strong ≥ 65 · Solid ≥ 45 · Depth < 45. Comparable-player confidence: 95%.

Encyclopedia Coverage5/8 data layers

StatVault aggregates multiple open-licensed and proprietary sources into a single profile. The depth indicator above shows which layers are available for this player.

Bio & DraftBirth date, height/weight, draft round/pick, college — sourced from nflverse players.csv (CC-BY 4.0). Covers all NFL eras.

Season Stats (1999–present)Week-by-week box scores aggregated to season totals: passing, rushing, receiving, defense. Source: nflverse player_stats. Counting stats are exact; rates are derived.

Advanced (EPA, 1999–present)Not available for this player

Snap Counts (2012–present)Offensive, defensive, and special-teams snap counts with team-share percentages. Essential for OL and situational players. Source: nflverse snap_counts.

Where this data comes from

Modern-era stats (1999+) come from nflverse's open data releases. Pre-1999 seasons are backfilled additively from Wikipedia and NFL.com's own official season pages — never from rights-restricted sources.

nflverse — CC-BY 4.0 — attribution required
Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution
NFL.com — Official league site; facts extracted under Feist, courtesy attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Per-Snap Impact

Running Backs · proprietary · 2012+

Above average

SIS

Yards / snap:2.17 ydsSee leaderboard →

Yards/snap2.17Touch rate0.487EPA/snap0Snap share63.1%Off snaps4,552ConsistentCV 0.13

Production per snap — the box score normalized by opportunity. SIS is z-scored within running backs, shrinkage-regularized so small samples don't spike, over the NFL snap-count era (2012+).

Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

Amber = this player (normalized to own peak). Indigo = average RBs aging curve. Group peak age: 21. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

Playoff vs Regular Season

📊 Consistent

Yards / Carry: 4.1 regular season → 4.2 playoffs (3 playoff seasons)

+2%

vs reg season

From Scrimmage · Career

Scrimmage Yds

9,876

7,428 rush · 2,448 recv

Total TDs

60 rush · 14 recv

Total Touches

2,135

1,816 carries · 319 rec

Yds / Touch

4.6

rushing + receiving

Career Milestones8

Major career thresholds crossed, derived from regular-season totals (1999+).

20181K career rushing yards
2019100 career receptions
20203K career rushing yards
20201K career receiving yards
202125 career rushing TDs
20225K career rushing yards

Understanding These Stats

Passing

Cmp / Att — Completions and pass attempts.

Cmp% — Completion percentage — completions ÷ attempts × 100.

Yds — Passing yards — total air + yards after catch on completions.

TD / TD% — Passing touchdowns. TD% = TDs per 100 attempts, measuring scoring efficiency.

Int / Int% — Interceptions thrown. Int% = INTs per 100 attempts — the primary ball-security metric.

Y/A — Yards per attempt — passing yards ÷ attempts. The core passing efficiency rate.

AdjY/A — Adjusted yards per attempt: (Pass Yds + 20×TD − 45×INT) ÷ Att. Penalizes turnovers and rewards touchdowns — widely considered the most predictive single-season QB metric.

TD:INT — TD-to-interception ratio — passing touchdowns ÷ interceptions thrown. Elite QBs sustain career ratios above 3.0; HOF greats often exceed 4.0. Not shown when no interceptions.

Rate — NFL passer rating — the official formula combining Cmp%, Y/A, TD%, and INT% on a 0–158.3 scale. Good QB performance ≈ 90+; elite ≈ 110+.

Sk — Times sacked — how many times the QB was brought down behind the line of scrimmage.

Postseason Career

9 playoff games

Passing

Cmp1Att1Cmp%100.0%Yds6TD1TD%100.0Y/A6.0AdjY/A26.0Rate

College Stats

OklahomaCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Oklahoma), but no parsed college box-score table is present in this profile artifact. The section stays here so every profile has a consistent college-stats landing point without fabricating unavailable rows.

Reference Graph

Career teammates and draft class, derived from year-by-year rosters — every name is linked.

Top Teammates

Tyler BoydWR7y Kevin HuberP6y Clark HarrisLS6y Sam HubbardDE6y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Joe inherited the Cincinnati Bengals RB room from Giovani Bernard (2013–2020), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

Boobie Clark 1973–1978Lenvil Elliott 1973–1978Archie Griffin 1976–1982Larry Kinnebrew 1983–1987James Brooks 1984–1991Eric Bieniemy

Similar Players

Statistical + physical similarity across every player in the database, position-relevant (0–100%).

Movementderived from season history

2024team change
Joined HOU (from CIN)
2024final season
Last recorded season with HOU
2017draft
Drafted by CIN — Round 2, Pick 48

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'1" / 220 lb

Frame

Knox

StatVault's proprietary player intelligence, informed by full career data. How Knox works →

Historical Knox · KV-H

Era-normalized career quality — z-scored against 8-season peers. See all →

peak 77

Season Report Cards· KV-H era-normalized per season

B2017

B+2018

B+2019

C2020

B+2021

B2022

B+2023

B+2024

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 8 seasons.

84%

Era Translator

Rush Yds translated to the 2025 NFL — each season's standing among its own-era peers, projected onto 2025's scoring environment. Modern-era (1999+) coverage.

Season	Actual Rush Yds	Rush Yds/G	→ 2025 Rush Yds	→ 2025 /G
2017	626	44.7	785+159	46.2
2018	1,168	83.4	1,471+303	86.5
2019	1,137	71.1	1,268+131	74.6
2020	428	71.3	1,216+788	71.5
2021	1,205	75.3	1,284+79	75.5
2022	814	58.1	1,010+196	59.4
2023	1,034	60.8	1,027-7	60.4
2024	1,016	72.6	1,221+205	71.8

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:snap_counts, nflverse:draft_picks · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

Rushing

Att — Rushing attempts (carries).

Yds — Rushing yards.

TD — Rushing touchdowns.

Y/A — Yards per carry — rushing yards ÷ carries. The core rushing efficiency rate; 4.5+ is solid, 5+ is elite.

TD% — Touchdown rate per carry (TDs ÷ carries × 100) — measures scoring efficiency per touch independent of volume. Red-zone workhorses lead here.

1D — First downs gained on rushing plays.

1D% — First-down conversion rate (first downs ÷ carries × 100) — how often a carry moves the chains. Top RBs convert on 25%+ of attempts.

Fmb — Rushing fumbles lost — the key ball-security stat for running backs. Below 1 per season is elite.

Receiving

Tgt — Targets — how many times the receiver was thrown to, regardless of completion.

Rec — Receptions — catches made.

Yds — Receiving yards.

TD — Receiving touchdowns.

Ctch% — Catch rate — receptions ÷ targets × 100. Measures how reliably a receiver turns opportunities into gains. 70%+ is elite.

Y/R — Yards per reception — receiving yards ÷ receptions. Measures big-play ability; 15+ is elite for WRs.

Y/Tgt — Yards per target — receiving yards ÷ targets. The single most complete receiving efficiency metric: accounts for both drops and incomplete targets. Elite receivers post 8+ yards per target.

AirYd/T — Air yards per target — average depth of route at time of target. High values indicate a deep threat role; low values indicate a slot/check-down role.

1D — First downs gained on receiving plays.

Proprietary StatVault Metrics

KV-H (Knox Value-Historical) — Era-normalized career rating 0–100 within position group, calibrated so a 50 = average starter and 90+ = all-time great. Covers 1999–present. Built on a 5-year IQR/robust-std era window.

SIS (Snap Impact Score) — Per-snap production z-scored within position group and era (2012+). Measures how much a player produced per opportunity, not raw volume.

VORP (Value Over Replacement) — Sum of max(0, season KV-H − positional replacement level) across a career. Measures career value above the minimum-roster baseline at each position.

Durability IQ — 0–100 score reflecting how many games a player played relative to peers at the same position in the same era. Adjusts for injury-shortened seasons.