If you’re a fantasy owner who selected Joe Mixon pretty early in your draft, you might be tearing your hair out right now.

Thus far, he’s totaled just 17 carries in two games for a paltry 45 yards (which is 2.6 yards per carry, ugh) along with four receptions for another 20 yards. You didn’t draft him thinking he’d be the third wheel in a trio of backs — you figured he’d be an RB2 with some potential for more.

I’m here to tell you what I’m telling myself (I took Mixon in two leagues): Be. Patient.

The problem is and will be for the rest of the year that the Bengals’ offensive line is awful. Even when — not if — Mixon starts getting 14-15 carries a game later this season, the issues up front may keep his prodigious upside tamped down.

There’s also that whole “What the heck is going on with Andy Dalton!?” thing, but I think this is a separate issue.

Watch some of his film from his first two games and you’ll realize that it’s that very talent that might still keep him in the starting RB conversation by season’s end:

Look at what he did to J.J. Watt!

And check out some of his Week 1 tape:

It’s so clear he’s so much more talented than Jeremy Hill, who got six carries to Mixon’s nine. The other issue is Giovani Bernard isn’t going away anytime soon, but I’m predicting the team wakes up sooner rather than later and gives Mixon 15 looks in the running game and a few out of the backfield. Some of that talent can help him get around some of the O-line problems, and the fact that he’s a great receiver and has some moves in the open field makes me think that’s where he’ll succeed.

So stash Mixon on your bench, and keep waiting.