Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon declined to speak to reporters on Sunday and indicated he no longer plans to answer questions from specific reporters, including Pro Football Network’s Jay Morrison.
In addition to Morrison, Mixon said he will also boycott questions from ESPN’s Ben Baby, the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Kelsey Conway, and Sports Illustrated’s James Rapien.
Joe Mixon Plans To Boycott PFN’s Bengals Coverage
Mixon went to his locker roughly halfway through the open locker-room period following Sunday’s practice, the first time he’d practiced since being found not guilty of aggravated menacing last week.
A reporter approached Mixon and asked if he was available to speak. Mixon told a group of waiting reporters, “I’ll talk to y’all later.”
Mixon then added, “Just so you know, I won’t be taking questions from you, you, you, or you,” pointing at Morrison, Baby, Conway, and Rapien.
Morrison asked Mixon why he wouldn’t speak to those specific reporters. Mixon responded it was because those reporters had been “disrespectful.”
Mixon did not speak after the conclusion of his trial last week and hasn’t talked with reporters since the end of the 2022 season.
Mixon’s agent, Peter Schaffer, responded to Baby’s social media post about Sunday’s episode.
“You know exactly why we don’t talk to you,” Schaffer wrote on X. “You consistently look for the negative and always are putting the players down.
“We have given you ample chances to correct the situation and you refuse. You made your bed now sleep in it. Don’t tweet to people that you don’t know why.”
Mixon’s trial for a aggravated menacing represented his second recent brush with the law. Mixon’s sister and a male acquaintance were charged after a teenage neighbor of Mixon’s was shot while playing with Nerf guns.
Mixon was not charged but is facing a civil lawsuit related to the incident.
A second-round pick in the 2017 draft, Mixon rushed for 814 yards and seven touchdowns in 12 appearances a year ago. He renegotiated his contract to stay with the Bengals this offseason and can earn up to $8 million via incentives.
