HOUSTON (CBS HOUSTON) – The best game of Alfred Blue’s career couldn’t have come at a better time.

His 31 carries for 139 yards and one touchdown helped propel the Texans to their first win of the 2015 season.

“We tip our hats to him,” Ben Jones said. “He ran hard the whole game. We were out there blocking and he was taking care of business.”

Oday Aboushi said the practice paid off in the game as the backs and offensive line clicked and Blue was in sync with them.

Chris Clark mentioned he thought Blue had been on his game from the start of the season, but the issues up front had slowed him.

“He’s always hitting it at practice. It was the [offensive] line being a little more in sync because Blue always do his thing…running backs work hard. They’re always ready to go and I think as an [offensive] line we came and did a little better that what we had [done] previously.”

No matter what led to Blue’s explosion, with Arian Foster’s status still in the air, the Texans may need to lean on their second year ball carrier another week as they travel to Atlanta to face the Falcons next weekend.

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