A week after he made a strong return from a hamstring injury with 132 total yards and 2 TDs against the Patriots, Texans RB Joe Mixon accounted for most of the offense in Sunday's narrow loss at Green Bay. He ran for 115 yards and 2 TDs on 25 carries (89.3% of the team RB total) and caught two passes for 9 yards. Even that low reception total ranked second on the team for the game. Mixon's 124 total yards constituted 63% of Houston's total net yardage against the Packers.
Mixon now ranks third among RBs in PPR points for game this season -- just 0.5 behind leader Derrick Henry (before Baltimore's Monday night game).
If you remove the Week 2 contest he left early with injury, though, Mixon jumps to more than 4.0 points per game ahead of anyone else at the position.
With Mixon leaving early once and then missing the next three games, Houston ranked sixth in the league in neutral pass rate from Week 2 through Week 5, according to RBSDM.com.
With Mixon back -- and WR Nico Collins out -- the past two weeks, the Texans sport the league's fifth-lowest neutral pass rate.
That's likely to swing the other way at least some when Collins returns (Week 10 at the earliest), but Mixon will make for a strong weekly starter whenever healthy the rest of the way.
RB Dameon Pierce carried just twice for 2 yards at Green Bay. RB Dare Ogunbowale rushed once for 6 yards and drew 1 catch-less target.
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