Report: Arian Foster out for rest of season with torn Achilles
The Houston Texans have lost running back Arian Foster for the rest of the season with a torn Achilles
After battling back from a groin injury suffered in the offseason, Houston Texans running back Arian Foster just seemed to be hitting his stride in Week 7. The backfield star was producing solidly on the ground and in the passing game. Now the Texans will have to weather the rest of the 2015 season without him.
Foster has been diagnosed with a torn Achilles, per NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport. With that severe of an injury, Foster will miss the rest of the 2015 season:
Source: #Texans RB Arian Foster has, in fact, torn his Achilles. His season is over.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) October 25, 2015
Foster was oddly left in the game in the fourth quarter of a blowout loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. While trying to break out for either a block or route, he planted to take off and crumpled into a heap in pain. He was then helped off of the field and, with it being a non-contact injury, many feared the worst. As it turns out, they were right to do so.
You have to question Texans head coach Bill O’Brien’s thought process in keeping Foster in a game that was out of hand, but there are more long-term concerns beyond just this injury and this season for Foster.
Foster will be 30 years old next season, past the prime of an average running back. Coming back and playing at a star-caliber level at 30 years old would have been a challenge for the veteran running back with healthy. Now coming back from a major injury that has been known to alter careers at 30 years old, one has to wonder if we’ve seen the last of Foster as a productive, every down running back.