{"id":10387,"date":"2014-05-21T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T02:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2014-05-21T22:14:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T02:14:01","slug":"arian-foster-is-ready-to-return-following-back-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/21\/arian-foster-is-ready-to-return-following-back-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Arian Foster is ready to return following back operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6617\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/arianfoster.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"433\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6617\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/arianfoster.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/arianfoster-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/arianfoster-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nHouston Texans running back Arian Foster is ready to return to the football field following a back operation that limited him to just eight games a season ago.<\/p>\n<p>Foster, 27, is expected to be a large part of new coach Bill O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s offense being a large part of the running game and in the receiving game out of the backfield.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Arian Foster made an appearance tonight at grand opening of Bowlero in The Woodlands. Said he&#39;s healthy and raring to go under new staff.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McClain (@McClain_on_NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McClain_on_NFL\/statuses\/469287483151097856\">May 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season Foster ran 121 times for 542 yards scoring just one touchdown. His best season in the passing came back in 2010 when he caught 66 passes.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans are still undecided at quarterback with Ryan Fitzpatrick looking like the Week 1 starter at this point. He will have Case Keenum and T.J. Yates behind him which should mean a heavy reliance on running backs in Houston this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Texans running back Arian Foster is ready to return to the football field following a back operation that limited him to just eight games a season ago. Foster, 27, is expected to be a large part of new coach Bill O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s offense being a large part of the running game and in the receiving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[481,60,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arian-foster","9":"tag-houston-texans","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10388,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions\/10388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10387"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}