D’Onta Foreman spent most of last year recovering from an Achilles tear. The Houston Texans running back played in only one match, catching a TD pass but taking seven carries for minus-1 lawn.
Heading toward coaching camp, the Texans are visiting a Foreman that’s about to bring about 2019.
“He is light-years ahead of where he was last year right now, coming off the injury and everything,” Texans running backs coach Danny Barrett said last month, through the Houston Chronicle. “I think he is continuing to work hard. I believe he’s had a good offseason to date. The time away from here, I thought was well spent . Getting ready to go , and that I think mentally, right now, is what I look in is each and every day.
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“Being consistent mentally as much as being locked into what we’re attempting to do and improve on the little things and attempting to contact that form where we saw prior to me coming into here, which had been the 2017 year, his first year.”
As a rookie in 2017, Foreman showed promise as a match to Lamar Miller, with a nose for distance, rate in the open, and power to bully through arm tackles. He compiled 78 totes for 327 yards (4.2 YPC) and 2 touchdowns — it was on the second (a 34-yard scamper) in which he blew his Achilles.
The Texans did little to upgrade the RB room in the offseason. Miller projects as the workhorse, as well as Houston letting backup Alfred Blue walk to Jacksonville, Foreman is set to take over backup duties. He could become the primary runner in Houston if injury strikes Miller.
Barrett said the Miller-Foreman duo is ideal for Houston since the crime does not need to change depending on which spine is on the area.
“As a coach, it’s obviously good because you don’t have to change up everything you are doing,” he noted. “You’ve got an experienced spine and you have a young back. They can feed off of each other. I just think D’Onta — again, being the younger back, having a year off has sort of helped his body but also given him a hunger to get back out there.
“So, I believe they’ll complement each other well. We do not need to change up what we are doing. They can catch out of the backfield too.”
If Foreman recaptures the flashes of potential he showed as a rookie — still a big if at this point coming off an Achilles injury — the Texans will have a nice one-two backfield punch for Deshaun Watson to utilize.
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