Joe Mixon

RB · CIN/HOU · 2017–2024

Born July 24, 1996 · College Oklahoma · Drafted 2017, round 2, pick 48 (CIN) · 6-1, 220 lb

Pro Bowl ×2 (2021, 2024)

EPA per carry by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Stabilised EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2017	CIN	14	178	626	4	3.52	−0.116	−0.119−0.176 to −0.062	35.7	−21.1	−0.29
2018	CIN	14	237	1,168	8	4.93	−0.056	−0.076−0.131 to −0.022	40.7	−13.7	+0.30
2019	CIN	16	278	1,137	5	4.09	−0.097	−0.090−0.143 to −0.037	36.5	−27.8	−0.35
2020	CIN	6	119	428	3	3.60	−0.182	−0.094−0.153 to −0.035	36.4	−22.1	−0.12
2021	CIN	16	292	1,205	13	4.13	−0.092	−0.067−0.119 to −0.014	40.1	−27.4	−0.61
2021 playoffs	CIN	4	67	262	1	3.91	−0.132		29.0	−9.1	+0.20
2022	CIN	14	210	814	7	3.88	−0.068	−0.068−0.123 to −0.012	39.9	−14.5	−0.53
2022 playoffs	CIN	3	39	163	1	4.18	+0.002		50.0	+0.1	+0.13
2023	CIN	17	257	1,034	9	4.02	−0.082	−0.082−0.136 to −0.028	39.5	−21.4	−0.19
2024	HOU	14	245	1,016	11	4.15	−0.069	−0.065−0.119 to −0.010	34.1	−17.4	+0.04
2024 playoffs	HOU	2	43	194	2	4.51	−0.078		38.6	−3.4	−0.09
Career	HOU	111	1,816	7,428	60	4.09	−0.089		38.0	−165.4	−1.74

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2017	CIN	14	34	30	287	0	88.2	+0.130	8.0	-0.9	+4.4	−0.08
2018	CIN	14	55	43	296	1	78.2	−0.041	12.4	0.0	−2.3	−0.03
2019	CIN	16	45	35	287	3	77.8	+0.182	7.6	-0.0	+8.2	+0.34
2020	CIN	6	26	21	138	1	80.8	+0.171	10.9	-1.1	+4.4	+0.13
2021	CIN	16	48	42	314	3	87.5	+0.181	9.4	-0.2	+8.7	+0.10
2021 playoffs	CIN	4	21	18	107	0	85.7	−0.063	15.4	-0.8	−1.3	−0.02
2022	CIN	14	75	60	441	2	80.0	+0.151	14.2	-0.2	+11.3	+0.03
2022 playoffs	CIN	3	10	8	50	0	80.0	+0.065	9.9	-1.6	+0.6	+0.02
2023	CIN	17	64	52	376	3	81.2	+0.036	10.8	-1.8	+2.3	−0.11
2024	HOU	14	52	36	309	1	69.2	+0.058	12.1	-0.5	+3.0	+0.12
2024 playoffs	HOU	2	5	3	25	0	60.0	−0.077	8.3	0.4	−0.4	−0.00
Career	HOU	111	399	319	2,448	14	79.9	+0.101	10.6	-0.6	+40.1	+0.51

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles
2017	CIN	14	2
2018	CIN	14	1
2020	CIN	6	1
2021	CIN	16	1
2022	CIN	14	1
2024	HOU	14	1
Career	HOU	111	7

Honours

Honours: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), matched to players through Wikidata (CC0). Awards and All-Pro teams are the Associated Press’s; Pro Bowl selections include replacements.

Season	Honours
2021	Pro Bowl
2024	Pro Bowl

Playing time

Scrimmage snaps from 2016, in the games he played (share: of his team’s snaps in those games). A season’s snaps appear after its playoffs, when the data is published. Who was on the field: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on), CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Team	G	Offensive snaps	Share of the offence’s snaps	Defensive snaps	Share of the defence’s snaps
2017	CIN	14	370	44.2	–	–
2018	CIN	14	589	69.2	–	–
2019	CIN	16	646	59.8	–	–
2020	CIN	6	289	65.5	–	–
2021	CIN	16	684	66.7	–	–
2021 playoffs	CIN	4	187	74.5	–	–
2022	CIN	14	603	64.2	–	–
2022 playoffs	CIN	3	87	45.3	–	–
2023	CIN	17	735	68.8	–	–
2024	HOU	14	552	62.7	–	–
2024 playoffs	HOU	2	88	63.8	–	–

Hands and contested catches

Regular season, 2022 on. Charting: FTN Data via nflverse, CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Targets charted	Catchable %	Drops	Drop % of catchable	Contested targets	Contested catch %
2022	75	88.0	2	3.0	4	50.0
2023	64	87.5	3	5.4	1	0.0
2024	52	78.8	3	7.3	1	0.0

Game logs

2024 game log (16 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2024-09-08	@ IND	W 29–27	30	159	1	+3.5	3	3	19	0	−0.6	0
2	2024-09-15	vs CHI	W 19–13	9	25	0	−4.7	5	3	25	0	+1.4	0
6	2024-10-13	@ NE	W 41–21	13	102	1	+2.8	3	2	30	1	+2.5	0
7	2024-10-20	@ GB	L 22–24	25	115	2	+0.5	3	2	9	0	−0.8	0
8	2024-10-27	vs IND	W 23–20	25	102	1	−2.9	6	4	32	0	+1.0	1
9	2024-10-31	@ NYJ	L 13–21	24	106	1	+0.2	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
10	2024-11-10	vs DET	L 23–26	25	46	1	−9.5	4	2	44	0	+2.3	0
11	2024-11-18	@ DAL	W 34–10	20	109	3	+4.1	4	2	44	0	+4.2	0
12	2024-11-24	vs TEN	L 27–32	14	22	0	−7.2	6	5	23	0	−1.6	0
13	2024-12-01	@ JAX	W 23–20	20	101	1	+1.8	6	4	18	0	−2.0	0
15	2024-12-15	vs MIA	W 20–12	12	23	0	−3.9	6	5	33	0	−1.6	0
16	2024-12-21	@ KC	L 19–27	14	57	0	−0.6	2	1	14	0	+0.3	0
17	2024-12-25	vs BAL	L 2–31	9	26	0	−2.9	3	2	13	0	−2.4	0
18	2025-01-05	@ TEN	W 23–14	5	23	0	+1.2	1	1	5	0	+0.2	0
P19	2025-01-11	vs LAC	W 32–12	25	106	1	−5.1	2	1	13	0	−0.8	0
P20	2025-01-18	@ KC	L 14–23	18	88	1	+1.7	3	2	12	0	+0.4	0

2023 game log (17 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2023-09-10	@ CLE	L 3–24	13	56	0	−2.9	5	3	17	0	−1.0
2	2023-09-17	vs BAL	L 24–27	13	59	0	+0.6	5	4	36	0	+0.2
3	2023-09-25	vs LA	W 19–16	19	65	1	+0.0	2	1	5	0	−0.8
4	2023-10-01	@ TEN	L 3–27	14	67	0	+0.2	1	1	9	0	+0.6
5	2023-10-08	@ ARI	W 34–20	25	81	0	−9.2	4	4	13	0	−1.0
6	2023-10-15	vs SEA	W 17–13	12	38	0	−2.1	4	3	24	0	+0.7
8	2023-10-29	@ SF	W 31–17	16	87	1	+2.7	3	3	23	0	+1.6
9	2023-11-05	vs BUF	W 24–18	14	37	1	−1.1	6	5	31	0	−1.7
10	2023-11-12	vs HOU	L 27–30	11	46	1	−1.8	3	2	-1	0	−2.4
11	2023-11-16	@ BAL	L 20–34	16	69	0	+1.2	5	5	31	1	+3.6
12	2023-11-26	vs PIT	L 10–16	8	16	0	−4.8	2	2	44	0	+1.9
13	2023-12-04	@ JAX	W 34–31 OT	19	68	2	+0.6	7	6	49	0	−4.3
14	2023-12-10	vs IND	W 34–14	21	79	1	+1.0	4	3	46	0	+1.7
15	2023-12-16	vs MIN	W 27–24 OT	10	47	1	+3.6	3	3	14	0	+0.3
16	2023-12-23	@ PIT	L 11–34	11	43	0	−4.4	4	2	7	0	−1.0
17	2023-12-31	@ KC	L 17–25	21	65	0	−8.4	4	4	22	1	+3.3
18	2024-01-07	vs CLE	W 31–14	14	111	1	+3.3	2	1	6	1	+0.4

2022 game log (17 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2022-09-11	vs PIT	L 20–23 OT	27	82	0	−6.1	9	7	63	0	+1.3	0
2	2022-09-18	@ DAL	L 17–20	19	57	0	−4.5	4	3	26	0	−0.2	0
3	2022-09-25	@ NYJ	W 27–12	12	24	0	−3.5	7	3	14	0	−1.4	0
4	2022-09-29	vs MIA	W 27–15	24	61	1	−8.4	4	4	13	0	−0.7	0
5	2022-10-09	@ BAL	L 17–19	14	78	0	+3.3	3	3	10	0	−1.0	1
6	2022-10-16	@ NO	W 30–26	8	45	0	+2.3	6	4	23	1	+2.1	0
7	2022-10-23	vs ATL	W 35–17	17	58	1	−1.2	3	3	33	0	+2.2	0
8	2022-10-31	@ CLE	L 13–32	8	27	0	−0.6	9	7	32	0	−2.1	0
9	2022-11-06	vs CAR	W 42–21	22	153	4	+11.3	5	4	58	1	+6.2	0
11	2022-11-20	@ PIT	W 37–30	7	20	0	−1.5	3	3	42	0	+4.1	0
14	2022-12-11	vs CLE	W 23–10	14	96	0	+1.2	2	2	10	0	+0.2	0
15	2022-12-18	@ TB	W 34–23	11	21	0	−4.9	6	5	33	0	+0.6	0
16	2022-12-24	@ NE	W 22–18	16	65	0	−0.1	9	7	43	0	−0.9	0
18	2023-01-08	vs BAL	W 27–16	11	27	1	−1.8	5	5	41	0	+0.8	0
P19	2023-01-15	vs BAL	W 24–17	11	39	0	−1.2	4	3	17	0	−0.0	0
P20	2023-01-22	@ BUF	W 27–10	20	105	1	+3.0	3	2	18	0	+0.4	0
P21	2023-01-29	@ KC	L 20–23	8	19	0	−1.7	3	3	15	0	+0.3	0

2021 game log (20 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2021-09-12	vs MIN	W 27–24 OT	29	127	1	−6.0	4	4	23	0	+0.9	0
2	2021-09-19	@ CHI	L 17–20	20	69	0	−3.9	2	1	2	0	−1.6	1
3	2021-09-26	@ PIT	W 24–10	18	90	0	−2.8	1	1	4	0	−0.9	0
4	2021-09-30	vs JAX	W 24–21	16	67	1	+1.5	2	1	0	0	−1.1	0
5	2021-10-10	vs GB	L 22–25 OT	10	33	1	−2.3	1	1	2	0	−0.4	0
6	2021-10-17	@ DET	W 34–11	18	94	0	+0.7	6	5	59	1	+5.0	0
7	2021-10-24	@ BAL	W 41–17	12	59	1	+1.8	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
8	2021-10-31	@ NYJ	L 31–34	14	33	1	−2.6	5	4	58	1	+3.5	0
9	2021-11-07	vs CLE	L 16–41	13	64	2	+2.3	5	5	46	0	+3.4	0
11	2021-11-21	@ LV	W 32–13	30	123	2	−2.0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
12	2021-11-28	vs PIT	W 41–10	28	165	2	+10.3	4	4	-2	0	−3.4	0
13	2021-12-05	vs LAC	L 22–41	19	54	1	−15.0	1	0	0	0	−0.4	0
14	2021-12-12	vs SF	L 23–26 OT	18	58	0	−3.2	2	2	10	0	−0.3	0
15	2021-12-19	@ DEN	W 15–10	17	58	0	−2.2	1	1	2	0	−0.5	0
16	2021-12-26	vs BAL	W 41–21	18	65	1	−1.2	6	6	70	1	+5.1	0
17	2022-01-02	vs KC	W 34–31	12	46	0	−2.8	8	7	40	0	−0.6	0
P19	2022-01-15	vs LV	W 26–19	17	48	0	−5.9	5	4	28	0	−0.6	0
P20	2022-01-22	@ TEN	W 19–16	14	54	1	−0.7	7	6	51	0	+1.9	0
P21	2022-01-30	@ KC	W 27–24 OT	21	88	0	−1.6	3	3	27	0	+1.0	0
P22	2022-02-13	vs LA	L 20–23	15	72	0	−0.9	6	5	1	0	−3.6	0

2020 game log (6 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2020-09-13	vs LAC	L 13–16	19	69	0	−8.7	2	1	2	0	−1.0	1
2	2020-09-17	@ CLE	L 30–35	16	46	0	−5.9	4	4	40	0	+2.3	0
3	2020-09-27	@ PHI	T 23–23 OT	17	49	0	−3.9	3	2	16	0	+0.7	0
4	2020-10-04	vs JAX	W 33–25	25	151	2	+4.7	6	6	30	1	+3.5	0
5	2020-10-11	@ BAL	L 3–27	24	59	0	−6.9	8	6	35	0	−0.5	0
6	2020-10-18	@ IND	L 27–31	18	54	1	−1.4	3	2	15	0	−0.7	0

2019 game log (16 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2019-09-08	@ SEA	L 20–21	6	10	0	−3.7	3	2	7	0	−2.2
2	2019-09-15	vs SF	L 17–41	11	17	0	−2.9	5	3	10	0	+0.1
3	2019-09-22	@ BUF	L 17–21	15	60	0	−1.1	2	2	34	1	+3.4
4	2019-09-30	@ PIT	L 3–27	15	62	0	−0.7	5	4	1	0	−4.1
5	2019-10-06	vs ARI	L 23–26	19	93	0	−1.6	1	1	16	0	+0.7
6	2019-10-13	@ BAL	L 17–23	8	10	0	−5.3	3	2	29	0	+1.4
7	2019-10-20	vs JAX	L 17–27	10	2	0	−7.5	2	1	2	1	+1.1
8	2019-10-27	@ LA	L 10–24	17	66	0	+1.4	4	4	11	1	+1.2
10	2019-11-10	vs BAL	L 13–49	30	114	0	+0.8	3	2	37	0	+2.4
11	2019-11-17	@ LV	L 10–17	15	86	1	+2.3	3	1	17	0	−0.1
12	2019-11-24	vs PIT	L 10–16	18	79	0	−4.5	0	0	0	0	0.0
13	2019-12-01	vs NYJ	W 22–6	19	44	1	−4.3	4	4	26	0	+0.5
14	2019-12-08	@ CLE	L 19–27	23	146	1	+4.8	4	3	40	0	+1.4
15	2019-12-15	vs NE	L 13–34	25	136	0	−0.6	3	3	20	0	+0.4
16	2019-12-22	@ MIA	L 35–38 OT	21	50	0	−7.8	2	2	23	0	+1.1
17	2019-12-29	vs CLE	W 33–23	26	162	2	+2.9	1	1	14	0	+0.9

2018 game log (14 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2018-09-09	@ IND	W 34–23	17	95	1	+3.5	7	5	54	0	−5.2	0
2	2018-09-13	vs BAL	W 34–23	21	84	0	−3.3	1	1	3	0	−0.5	0
5	2018-10-07	vs MIA	W 27–17	22	93	0	−4.0	4	3	22	1	+1.7	0
6	2018-10-14	vs PIT	L 21–28	11	64	1	+1.8	7	4	20	0	−1.9	0
7	2018-10-21	@ KC	L 10–45	13	50	0	−2.1	5	3	1	0	−4.5	0
8	2018-10-28	vs TB	W 37–34	21	123	2	−3.9	4	3	15	0	−1.5	0
10	2018-11-11	vs NO	L 14–51	11	61	0	+0.8	2	2	24	0	+1.7	1
11	2018-11-18	@ BAL	L 21–24	12	14	1	−4.4	3	3	38	0	+2.6	0
12	2018-11-25	vs CLE	L 20–35	14	89	0	−1.1	7	7	66	0	+6.5	0
13	2018-12-02	vs DEN	L 10–24	12	82	0	+1.2	2	2	13	0	+1.8	0
14	2018-12-09	@ LAC	L 21–26	26	111	1	−3.7	6	5	27	0	+0.7	0
15	2018-12-16	vs LV	W 30–16	27	129	2	+1.9	4	2	1	0	−2.7	0
16	2018-12-23	@ CLE	L 18–26	17	68	0	−3.3	2	2	10	0	−0.1	0
17	2018-12-30	@ PIT	L 13–16	13	105	0	+2.9	1	1	2	0	−1.1	0

2017 game log (14 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2017-09-10	vs BAL	L 0–20	8	9	0	−1.0	3	3	15	+0.8	1
2	2017-09-14	vs HOU	L 9–13	9	36	0	−0.4	1	1	5	−0.1	0
3	2017-09-24	@ GB	L 24–27 OT	18	62	0	−1.3	3	3	39	+3.6	0
4	2017-10-01	@ CLE	W 31–7	17	29	0	−5.2	4	4	19	−1.3	0
5	2017-10-08	vs BUF	W 20–16	15	51	1	−0.1	0	0	0	0.0	1
7	2017-10-22	@ PIT	L 14–29	7	48	0	+2.0	3	3	20	+1.2	0
8	2017-10-29	vs IND	W 24–23	11	18	0	−6.1	3	3	91	+1.3	0
9	2017-11-05	@ JAX	L 7–23	13	31	1	−0.5	4	3	15	−0.6	0
10	2017-11-12	@ TEN	L 20–24	9	37	1	+0.2	3	1	3	−3.1	0
11	2017-11-19	@ DEN	W 20–17	20	49	0	−7.2	2	2	0	−1.8	0
12	2017-11-26	vs CLE	W 30–16	23	114	1	+1.7	3	3	51	+3.6	0
13	2017-12-04	vs PIT	L 20–23	7	34	0	−0.7	1	1	8	+0.7	0
16	2017-12-24	vs DET	W 26–17	3	12	0	+0.2	3	2	20	+0.7	0
17	2017-12-31	@ BAL	W 31–27	18	96	0	−2.9	1	1	1	−0.5	0