Houston Texans prominent running back Arian Foster is looking forward to the 2015 NFL Season, despite still recovering from a surgery.

The 29-year old NFL athlete, who had a groin-related injury in the first week of August, as announced by Tania Ganguli of ESPN, is determined to go beyond this physical challenge. The Albuquerque-born player even believes that the upcoming season will be his best year ever in his football career, NFL.com reported.

"I think this is going to be my best year and I still feel like it will be. It's going to be tough because I'm going to have some ground to make up, but I was feeling the best, feeling the quickest that I felt. You can judge for yourself," the Texans' RB entering his seventh season declared.

Although the football player is feeling great about his current health situation, he's actually not yet ready to play as his condition is something that must not be taken for granted. Thus, he's aware that even though he wants to play on the field during the start of the season, he couldn't yet.

"When you're dealing with muscle injuries they tend to re-occur if you're not careful, so it's not something you can push through. I've played entire seasons with torn meniscus, I've played an entire season with a broken collarbone. I've played an entire season with things that you can push through but muscle injuries there's nothing you can do because it literally hinders the movement," said the University of Tennessee alumnus.

It is comforting that the six-foot-one, 227-pounder is being more vigilant of his physical condition, as he always gets into this type of "soft tissue injury" every season, as observed by the Texans owner Bob McNair, per Houston Chronicle's John McClain's tweet.

His determination to get well soon is evident from his fast recovery from his operation as shared by Houston team's head coach Bill O' Brien, the Texans' official website informed.

"Arian is doing well. Relative to the injury that he has and prognosis early on, I would say he's ahead of that," O'Brien said.

"I believe that he's really working hard to get back...I think he'll be back sooner rather than later, relative to what the early prognosis was," he added.

It is indeed great news if Foster will be back earlier than expected as he proved to be a great asset to the team. Foster posted an average of 4.8 yards per carry in 2014 while all the players of the Houston team "combined to average 3.1 yards per carry," Trey Wingo of ESPN stated.

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