Houston RB Arian Foster out for season with Achilles injury

Now, the Texans’ running game has absorbed another major hit after adjusting to life without Foster earlier this season when he was sidelined after undergoing surgery in August to fix a groin muscle partially torn off the bone.

Foster, 29, has been one of the lone bright spots for Houston this season, rushing for 163 yards and a touchdown and catching 22 passes for another 227 yards and two scores.

Texans RBs Alfred Blue and Chris Polk are expected to gain more usage with Foster out for the season. He had 125 total yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns against the Dolphins before suffering the injury. He missed the first three games with a groin injury. If the MRI confirms Foster’s torn achilles, this will likely be the second time he finishes a season on the injured reserve in only his sixth season as a full time starter. Fitzpatrick (owned in 28 percent of Yahoo leagues) has thrown five TDS – and ran for another – over his last three games. I am not sure at this point if Mallett has given up on the team or given up on himself, but if his former offensive coordinator can’t work with him, I’m not sure which head coach can.

It’s been an unfriendly year for upper echelon running backs, with Seattle’s Marshawn Lynch also missing time this season and Eddie Lacy frustrating owners as he deals with an ankle ailment. “We’re all supportive of him in that rehab”.

“I feel awful for him”. I know how hard he worked to come back from his groin injury.

ALLEN PARK, Mich. – The Detroit Lions fired offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi and offensive line coaches Jeremiah Washburn and Terry Heffernan on Monday, a day after the team dropped another game in a listless performance against the Minnesota Vikings.

The team announced the moves a few hours after coach Jim Caldwell gave no indication that any major changes were imminent in his Monday news conference.

Safety Danny McCray, a member of the unit, said Hardy even “pushed me a little bit”. “It’s like losing a coach in the running back room”. The injury happened without contact.

The unbeaten Bengals are about to get one of their best players back. Jacksonville’s wild 34-31 win over Buffalo, which started at 9:30 a.m. EDT, was available only through Yahoo worldwide everywhere other than the two home markets, where it was televised on CBS.