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Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon, who has the talent to be selected early in April's NFL draft, reportedly wasn't invited to the NFL scouting combine because he was involved in an incident in which he hit a female student in the face when he was a freshman in 2014. Mississippi quarterback Chad Kelly, a late-round prospect…
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| HAT-TIP: THE WASHINGTON TIMES |
ANALYSIS/OPINION Organizations as big and powerful as the NFL should be much slicker in handling spin and shaping perception. But the NFL routinely falls to a level you'd expect from mom-and-pop outfits unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight. We see right through the league's actions, which lack consistency and appear to be made on the fly.…
Off the field issues are becoming more and more important to the NFL in recent years, and one of the latest moves by the NFL Combine is just more proof of that. According to Tom Pelissero of USA Today, Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon and Baylor wide receiver Ishmael Zamora were both not invited to this…
