Following news from earlier today that Joe Mixon was set to miss the entire 2025 campaign, the running back and his agent are pushing back. Shortly after NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that Mixon’s foot injury would prevent him from seeing the field this season, the veteran tweeted at the reporter.
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“Now, I get everyone’s looking for splash news & clickbait… but I’m just curious, Ian how do you know more about me than me?” Mixon asked.
Mixon’s agent, Peter Schaffer, was also quick to comment on the reports, cryptically tweeting that “[t]he truth and what comes out of his mouth is mere coincidence.”
This is a somewhat intriguing turn in this sudden saga, and as Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com, it leads to questions about who leaked information about Mixon’s injury status in the first place. As Florio notes, Texans GM Nick Caserio comes from the Patriots personnel department and runs a Belichickian, no-leak operation.
While the Texans wouldn’t have much incentive to lie about Mixon’s status, they could have some financial incentive to sit him for the entire 2025 season. As Florio notes, the Texans don’t have to pay the player’s $7MM salary since Mixon is sitting on the non-football injury list (although it’s important to note that the team can pay Mixon if they want, and there haven’t been any reports about how the team’s proceeding in this regard). Mixon also has $500K worth of per-game roster bonuses.
Mixon suffered a foot injury while working out in the offseason, and there haven’t been many reports about his progress up until today. Since we’re already in the second half of the season and the team has settled on a Nick Chubb/Woody Marks tandem, it’s not a particularly hot take to proclaim that Mixon won’t have a role on the 2025 iteration of the Texans. Perhaps the definitive nature of Rapoport’s report is what drew the ire of Mixon, and we won’t truly know whose narrative is correct until the end of the regular season.