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'I think he's mad': Cris Collinsworth says anger toward Bengals fuels Texans' Joe Mixon
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Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth talked about running back Joe Mixon 's success in his first season with the Houston Texans during NBC's Sunday Night Football, and Collinsworth said the Cincinnati Bengals ' March trade of Mixon to the Texans for a 2024 seventh-round draft pick gave Mixon extra incentive to prove himself this season with his new team.
Mixon, who played his first seven NFL seasons for the Bengals, entered Sunday night with 609 rushing yards and 115 receiving yards through six games this season, with a career-best 4.8 yards per carry.
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"You saw a lot of Mixon with the Bengals. … It feels a little different for him here. Why?" Tirico asked Collinsworth during the second quarter of Sunday night's broadcast of the NFL Week 10 game between the Texans and Detroit Lions .
Houston Texans running back Joe Mixon against Detroit
"I think he's mad," Collinsworth said. "I think he finds it hard to believe with everything that he did for the Cincinnati Bengals that it was a seventh-round draft pick that they gave up."
In his first NFL regular-season game since the trade, Mixon posted the third-best rushing game of his career, running for 159 yards with a touchdown in Houston's season-opening win against Indianapolis .
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After the game, Mixon said he doesn't wish the Texans had the Bengals on their schedule.
"Because I just wanna leave them where they're at, just like where they left me, man," Mixon said. "I'm happy to be on my new team, man, embracing me. … I feel great to be appreciated here and to play a big part in what we do. … I'm just happy that I'm on this side now."
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This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Cris Collinsworth: Anger toward Bengals' trade fuels Texans' Joe Mixon
