Jim Anderson, who coached 14 different Bengals runners to 100-yard games before retiring four years ago, wasted no time to take a look at the next one Friday when the club conducted the first day of rookie minicamp at dreary, drip-dry Paul Brown Stadium.
It didn’t take long to find out who Anderson had come to see. You didn’t have to coach the Bengals running backs for 29 years to know that Oklahoma’s Joe Mixon had arrived as advertised. Big. 6-2, 230-pound big. (Maybe a little too big for head coach Marvin Lewis at the moment). Fast. Smooth.