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| PHOTO: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
INDIANAPOLIS -- Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon runs a 4.50 40-yard dash at 226 pounds and based only on football ability, NFL evaluators project him as a top-50 pick. But Mixon must first outrun his past. The league barred Mixon -- and others, including Ole Miss quarterback Chad Kelly -- from the 2017 NFL Scouting Combine,…
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Detroit Lions general manager Bob Quinn stirred up a hornet's nest Wednesday when he said it's not "really fair" that Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon wasn't invited to the Scouting Combine. Mixon and several other players, including Mississippi quarterback Chad Kelly, were excluded from the Combine because of off-field issues in the past. While…
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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.…
