Arian Foster Week 4: Texans Can’t Afford to Lean on Returning RB

October 1, 2011   ·   Joseph Healy   ·   Jump to comments

The Texans finally got some good news about star running back Arian Foster this week. After a few weeks of playing the guessing game with his hamstring injury, the Texans got definitive word earlier this week that Foster would be healthy and playing this Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Not only will Foster be back on the field, he is expected to be thrown right back in the deep end. HoustonTexans.com beat writer Nick Scurfield tweeted the following quote from head coach Gary Kubiak in regards to Foster's workload:
Kubiak said that Arian Foster "looks good... We're going to put him back to work full-time and see how he holds up."The Texans are obviously planning on making Foster a huge part of their offensive game plan this week, but I think that they are making a mistake in doing so. Giving him a full-time workload is just too risky.
It's not that the Texans don't have enough depth behind him to be successful. Ben Tate has been one of the breakout stars of the yo...

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