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DJ Bien-AimeJul 23, 2025, 10:44 AM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>DJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN in July of 2022 after covering the New York Jets for the New York Daily News. He’s a former athlete who finished his college career at Louisville. You can catch DJ on ESPN Radio on his show “Talkin’ Texans.”<\/p>\n HOUSTON — Houston Texans<\/a> running back Joe Mixon<\/a> is starting training camp on the non-football injury list.<\/p>\n Mixon, a Pro Bowler last season in his first year with the Texans, didn’t practice during OTAs and minicamp because of an ankle injury.<\/p>\n The ankle hasn’t healed to the point where Mixon can fully go. The non-football injury (NFI) designation indicates that Mixon suffered the injury outside of the Texans’ facility.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks Mixon, who turns 28 on Thursday, rushed for 1,016 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2024.<\/p>\n The Texans added players in the offseason equipped to step in for Mixon, signing Nick Chubb<\/a> after a seven-year stint with the Cleveland Browns<\/a> and drafting Woody Marks<\/a> out of USC in the fourth round.<\/p>\n The Texans hope the ankle injury won’t sideline Mixon for an extended period, but in the meantime, Chubb will get an opportunity to show his last season in Cleveland was a fluke.<\/p>\n Chubb ranked third on the Browns’ career rushing list (6,843 yards), but the end of his tenure in Cleveland was derailed by injuries. He suffered a season-ending knee injury in Week 2 of the 2023 season and did not return to action until Week 7 of last season. The four-time Pro Bowler rushed for 332 yards and recorded career lows in yards per attempt (3.3) and percentage of carries that gained at least 10 yards (4.9%) before suffering a broken foot in Week 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ Bien-AimeJul 23, 2025, 10:44 AM ET CloseDJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-31583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1520645_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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