Arian Foster Injury: Houston Texans RB a ‘full-go’

Houston Texans star running back Arian Foster has always been expected to play today against the Buffalo Bills after missing last week’s game against the New York Giants with a hamstring injury, and the prevailing belief is that Foster is fully healthy now. The Texans don’t want to risk Foster aggravating his hamstring injury, but they feel safe trotting him out there since he’s shown that he’s just about 100%. While I would like to see the Texans ease his workload by mixing in the talented Alfred Blue, who shined in Foster’s absence last week, the team truly does need their star workhorse to carry them on Sundays.

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The NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports that Arian Foster will play today after looking good during pre-game warm-ups, and it sounds like he was indeed a very easy game-time decision for Bill O’Brien and the Houston Texans. Foster, per Rapoport, will be a “full-go” today, and this is right in line with what we’ve heard in other reports.

Foster won’t have it easy today against a tough Bills run defense that features the dominant DT duo of Marcell Dareus and Kyle Williams, as well as two impressive downhill run-stuffers in Brandon Spikes, who is one of the league’s most explosive linebackers, and standout rookie Preston Brown, who received a few comparisons to Spikes before the draft.