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2017 NFL Draft: Can Joe Mixon’s draft visits alleviate teams’ fears?

To say that Joe Mixon has his work cut out for him would be an understatement. The talented running back out of Oklahoma is struggling to overcome the troubling incident when he was first entering college in which he struck a woman in the face on camera and then fled the scene.

Some teams have immediately written Mixon off, despite his talent. Others, including a slew of teams ready to make the jump to contenders, have not. Mixon’s talent is apparently enough to outweigh that one troubling incident.

This is most evident by his slew of pre-draft visits with teams.