{"id":798168,"date":"2026-03-07T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/798168\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:01:20","slug":"texans-release-rb-joe-mixon-after-foot-injury-wiped-out-entire-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/798168\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans release RB Joe Mixon after foot injury wiped out entire 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixon’s placement on the non-football injury list to start training camp for the 2025 season stopped any carryover momentum in its tracks. It became evident something was more seriously amiss<\/a> toward the end of the preseason, and he ultimately never came off the NFI list, leaving the Texans to navigate their most recent run to the playoffs with a backfield led by Woody Marks<\/a> and Nick Chubb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Houston running backs combined for six TDs on the ground and the team’s rushing attack finished 22nd in the league. Staring at an inefficient operation and a future muddied by Mixon’s injury, the Texans worked out a trade<\/a> for the Detroit Lions’ David Montgomery<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

The clock already seemed to be ticking on Mixon’s time in Houston before then, but the pairing of Montgomery with Marks made his departure a near certainty.<\/p>\n

Mixon enters free agency sporting a stellar r\u00e9sum\u00e9. He currently sits seventh among active players with 7,428 rushing yards and his 60 rushing touchdowns are tied for eighth. He’s also plenty capable of doing damage in the passing game, which is evident from his 2,448 career receiving yards and 14 TD catches.<\/p>\n

The main question mark looming over Mixon’s continued ability to be a difference-maker is his health. Any interested clubs will have to feel comfortable enough that the foot injury that kept Mixon off the field for an entire season is now behind him.<\/p>\n

Then, he’ll have to prove it on the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mixon’s placement on the non-football injury list to start training camp for the 2025 season stopped any carryover…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,4609,253,3608,88,6,609],"class_list":{"0":"post-798168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-free-agency","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-joe-mixon","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-no-minute"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116187318408450245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}