As if the 2025 season wasn't going to be challenging enough for a Houston Texans offense working in a new offensive coordinator and four new starters along the offensive line, back in July, the Texans were forced to place starting running back Joe Mixon on the non-football injury list.
Now nobody will mistake Joe Mixon as one of the top-tier running backs in the NFL. He isn't the caliber of player that guys like Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry, Christian McCaffrey or Jonathan Taylor have been, but what Mixon has been throughout his career is mind-numbingly consistent.
Since his second NFL season -- and with the exception of the 2020 campaign, when he was limited to just six games -- you could pencil Joe Mixon in for somewhere around 4 yards per carry and right in the neighborhood of 1,000 yards for the season.