{"id":39390,"date":"2025-07-26T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39390\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:15:07","slug":"source-texans-rb-joe-mixon-ankle-to-miss-majority-of-preseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39390\/","title":{"rendered":"Source — Texans RB Joe Mixon (ankle) to miss majority of preseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DJ Bien-AimeJul 26, 2025, 02:50 PM 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 — Texans<\/a> running back Joe Mixon<\/a> will be out a majority of the preseason with an ankle injury and will be re-evaluated closer to the start of the regular season, a source confirmed to ESPN.<\/p>\n

NFL Network was first to report the news.<\/p>\n

Mixon injured his ankle over the offseason and didn’t participate in OTAs or minicamp, which landed him on the non-football injury list<\/a> to start training camp.<\/p>\n

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Mixon, who turned 29 on Thursday, rushed for 1,016 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2024, earning him Pro Bowl honors in his first season for the Texans.<\/p>\n

The Texans took steps to offset Mixon’s potential absence this offseason by signing<\/a> four-time Pro Bowl running back Nick Chubb<\/a> after his seven-year stint with the Cleveland Browns<\/a> and drafting Woody Marks<\/a> out of USC<\/a> in the fourth round of April’s NFL draft.<\/p>\n

The other options to fill in for Mixon are running backs Dameon Pierce<\/a>, who’s on the Physically Unable to Perform list, and Dare Ogunbowale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Texans have their first preseason game on Aug. 9 as they travel to Minnesota to face the Vikings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ Bien-AimeJul 26, 2025, 02:50 PM ET CloseDJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-39390","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\/39390","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=39390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}