Joe Mixon is already in midseason form. ?? pic.twitter.com/A412x6xhBc — Lee Benson (@LeeBensonNews9) August 9, 2018

NORMAN, Okla. — Former OU running back Joe Mixon hauled in a pass out of the backfield, then made a pair of defenders miss with some shifty moves on a 24-yard touchdown in the Cincinnati Bengals’ Thursday night preseason game against the Chicago Bears.

On the play, quarterback Andy Dalton simply flipped it out to No. 28, who did the rest. The score put the Bengals up 7-0 midway through the first quarter.

In the contest, Mixon caught the one pass for 24 yards, while also rushing three times for nine yards. So he accounted for 33 yards from scrimmage in the initial preseason outing of 2018.

His score helped the Bengals jump out to a 14-7 lead after the first quarter. They led it 23-14 at halftime.

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Mixon is coming off a 2017 season where he rushed for 626 yards and four touchdowns on 178 carries, averaging 3.5 yards per rush. He also caught 30 passes for 287 yards, tallying 9.6 yards per reception.

Previously with the Sooners, Mixon set the single-season all-purpose yards record with his 2,331. That eclipsed a mark DeMarco Murray held before that.