The Houston Texans need help running the football.
It is no secret that the ground game was far and away the team’s biggest deficiency during the Tim Kelly era. The addition of David Johnson in 2020 nor the departure of former coach Bill O’Brien was able to generate any traction.
The Texans finished dead last in the NFL with 1,422 rushing yards in 2021, only 83.6 yards per game. Rex Burkhead, a late add to the roster in August, was the team’s leading rusher with 122 carries for 427 yards. There was not a single back on the roster that averaged over 3.5 yards per carry. Burkhead, Johnson, Phillip Lindsay, Royce Freeman — it didn’t matter. Houston had no rushing game.
If the team is going to aid the development of second year quarterback Davis Mills and remove the entire offensive burden from the passing game, this is an area that must be improved upon in 2022. New offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton will likely provide some welcome changes from a Kelly run scheme that…