Is Joe Mixon definitely off of our draft board?

[t96]

Ridiculously good player who's one of the best backs in this stacked class and if not for the off the field incident would be a definite first round pick. Question is obviously his character though and I wonder if his situation is one that we'll definitely stay away from, and would love for @Jeremy Igo to chime in. I don't know a whole lot about him other than his on the field play but it seems to me that his only issue off the field was one incident that happened when he had just turned 18 and he punched a woman in a Deli. Here's the video of it:

 

 

The girl shoves him, he lunged at her than she slapped him and he responded with a punch. I don't know what the hell started this whole thing and his reaction was clearly over the top and he deserved the misdemeanor, counseling and community service he had to do but she did start the physical altercation, twice. Is this really something that would take him off of our board entirely? There's talk of him falling to day 3 or out of the draft entirely because of this, and any team who gets him will have an absolute steal when considering his talent. Maybe I don't know enough about him but one incident like this when he was barely 18 years old that he didn't even start doesn't scream to me that he'll have any other problems off the field going forward. If there's more than this incident then that's another thing but I haven't heard of anything else.

 

Obviously for us this is much more serious than other teams with Carruth and then Hardy being on JR's mind, but it's a little different when it's a college player coming in like Mixon and we've already shown last draft that we'd take somebody who has a bit of a history in Worley. Obviously can't equate Mixon and Worley but Worley shows that we won't stay away from it entirely, we'll look at the facts of the situation and make a decision. I just don't see how DG could pass this guy up if he's sitting there in the 3rd still. Any thoughts on this? 

[Khyber53]

Leave his ass to the vultures.

[SOJA]

zero chance we draft him

[Swaggasaurus]

I hope he's not off our board. He should not have hit the girl, but you can't just put hands on someone because you are a woman. I would not be upset if we picked Mixon.

[vorbis]

I think it's safe to say the Panthers will be playing against him, and won't lose sleep about it.

[t96]

21 minutes ago, 15 said:

If you have to ask this question than you do not deserve an actual response. 

Would you rather we discuss a bunch of random tweeter posts on here?

[ncfan]

2nd best RB talent wise behind Fournette.  Same Size and speed pretty much indentical to Zeke.  No way he lands a panther.  There's a better chance we trade Cam And Luke aaay this draft than drafting Mixon.  Really could see him going to Seattle.  The guy that has left a void there retiring had some baggage when Seattle traded for him and Carrol is a guy who gives guys second chances

[shaqattaq]

I'm wary, but not dead against it. This happened in July 2014 when he was barely 18. He served a years suspension, and there has been no other issues with him that I am aware of. basically, he fugged up (BADLY) as a kid, and pulled his punishment. I don't think that should prevent us from drafting him years later. 

[countryboi]

I think he is off a ton of teams boards the current culture of the US is just not going to allow this to go away. that said NFL teams have shown some willingness to put college transgression in the past as long as you play well and dont do it again. IE Tyreek Hill

[t96]

3 minutes ago, shaqattaq said:

I'm wary, but not dead against it. This happened in July 2014 when he was barely 18. He served a years suspension, and there has been no other issues with him that I am aware of. basically, he fugged up (BADLY) as a kid, and pulled his punishment. I don't think that should prevent us from drafting him years later. 

I agree and I think it'd be tough to find many football fans who would be against their team drafting him on day 2 or later. Question is though will JR let it happen if DG does his evaluations and thinks it would be worth it to take Mixon at some point? Or would DG and Ron and their staff not want him anyways?

[jumpman910]

He shouldn't but he probably is.  Some team is going to get CRAZY value drafting in a later round. 

[Daddy_Uncle]

If you seriously believe there is any possibility we would ever draft someone that laid hands on a woman then you are a special kind of stupid. 

[WarHeel]

18 is old enough to know that you don't put your hands on a woman. I don't care if he's Zeus is in prime. Don't want him in Carolina.


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[ncfan]

6 minutes ago, jumpman910 said:

 Some team is going to get CRAZY value drafting in a later round. 

This, some team can take a flyer on him.  Heck it worked out well in Arizona and Honey badger.  He was suspended then kicked off the team sat out a year, kid turned his poo around one of the best players in the game.

Kid is a beast though so whoever take a fly on him late could get a top of the line steal