ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- C.J. Anderson was bracing for a prolonged recovery as he prepared to undergo surgery to repair the torn meniscus in his right knee late Thursday.Before heading into the operating room in Northern California, the Denver Broncos leading rusher tweeted thanks to his fans for their prayers and said, We will not know til after the procedure if i am done for the season or if I can come back to help my team to (hash)51.Anderson was Denvers offensive star in Super Bowl 50, rushing for 90 yards and a touchdown in the Broncos 24-10 win over Carolina. That helped garner a four-year, $18 million offer from the Dolphins in restricted free agency that the Broncos matched. The front-loaded contract paid him $6 million this year.Anderson is the Broncos leading rusher with 437 yards on 110 carries and four touchdowns, including a season-best 107 yards and a TD on 16 carries Monday night against Houston in his best performance of the season.He did it despite hurting his right knee on his second carry.He is a leader of this team and thats a big role, wide receiver Demaryius Thomas said. We dont know the timetable right now, but he will be missed for this game and the rest of the season if it comes to that. He deserves to be around. He worked hard for the contract. He had had been playing great last season and playing great this season, but well miss him for sure.The Broncos broke out of a prolonged funk by running for 190 yards in their 27-9 win over the Texans. Andersons right knee slightly buckled as he made a cut on the final play of the first quarter, an 11-yard run.He came in and said, `I felt something, running back Kapri Bibbs recounted. But he said, `Im good now. I feel real good. And he went back in the game an obviously was able to rush for 107 yards and carried the team and carried us to a win.Thats what gives coach Gary Kubiak hope that Anderson will be back sometime this season.I think the positive thing is he played in the game and he played through it, Kubiak said. Its obviously something that they need to go and repair, so we have to see to what degree that is. Lets find out.Anderson didnt have a limp after the game and the Broncos left the stadium feeling good about their rejuvenated ground game that included 83 yards on 17 carries from rookie Devontae Booker, who scored his first career touchdown and now will become their starter.Anderson, who wasnt limping after the game, showed up sore Tuesday and the teams medical staff diagnosed a torn meniscus. Anderson flew to California for a second opinion on Wednesday and was prepped for surgery late Thursday after doctors confirmed the initial diagnosis.Bibbs said theres no reason the Broncos (5-2), who play San Diego (3-4) on Sunday, cant still have a powerful 1-2 punch without Anderson.Book is ready to play; Im ready to play, Bibbs said. And I dont think theres going to be any drop-off. I think were going to go in there and were going to handle our business.The Broncos had a first-round grade on Booker but were able to grab him in the fourth round after he slid because of concerns about two knee surgeries to repair a torn meniscus he suffered in his final game at Utah in November.The running back who really turned their heads this year, however, was Bibbs, whose improvement over the offseason led them to jettison fifth-year pro Ronnie Hillman, their leading rusher last season.I dont think theres an area where he hasnt improved, offensive coordinator Rick Dennison said. 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The England coach Trevor Bayliss has said he is very tempted by the idea of playing Adil Rashid as part of a twin-spin attack in the final Test against Pakistan at The Oval, but even if he does not feature this week has indicated Rashid will start the series in the subcontinent later in the year.Rashid, who played three Tests against Pakistan in the UAE last year, has been part of the squad since the Old Trafford Test and Bayliss said he had come close to playing in the last two matches before England opted to retain the balance of four quicks and Moeen Ali as the spinner.While there have been reports that The Oval pitch will suit England in the final Test, with pace and bounce, recent evidence has been of it offering some help for the spinners. The last time England played two spinners in a home Test was at The Oval, against Australia in 2013, when Simon Kerrigan made his debut.Having been omitted from the third Test, Rashid returned to play for Yorkshire in the County Championship against Warwickshire, where he took 7 for 61 in the match. A notable part of Rashids role in that game was running through the lower order, which is something Bayliss believes he could bring to the Test side.Very, Bayliss said when asked how tempted he was by the thought of Rashid playing. I think we saw last year at The Oval, the wicket had a bit in it for everyone. Nathan Lyon bowled very well there, got some spin and bounce out of the wicket. Ive thought Rashids been a chance for the last two or three Tests that weve played. At some stage he will get an opportunity.Obviously, we are going to the subcontinent, so hes probably the guy who will get the first opportunity there. Having a legspinner will help when the wicket is turning, that we can knock over the tail a bit easier.There are a couple of ways England could fit Rashid into their side; they could drop a pace bowler or back Rashids ability as an allrounder and leave either James Vince or Gary Ballance out of the middle order. It is unlikely England will follow either path at The Oval after the all-round success of the attack at Edgbaston, while Ballance made 70 in the first-innings and Vince again earned the backing of the coach after scoring 81 runs in the Test even though he twice fell in familiar fashion edging to the slips.However, further down the line in Bangladesh, should the tour go ahead, and India, Bayliss offered the hint that playing Rashid as another allrounder would be high up Englands thinking - especially when Ben Stokes is available again.Ben Stokes is a big part of that. If he is in the team as one of four pace bowlers, you could have two spinners.dddddddddddd If he was one of three pace bowlers, you might even have three spinners.If the wickets are anything like South Africa had in India, thats a possibility. Id say at this stage wed definitely be taking three spinners to India. But I think the case for playing two is a definite.For now, it is likely England will stick to their current balance of having Moeen as the one spinner for the final Test. Moeen produced his best spell of the summer in the second innings at Edgbaston - sending down 15 overs either side of lunch - and claimed the key wicket of Azhar Ali, which opened the door for Englands push towards victory when the ball started to reverse.Moeen, who was named Man of the Match, has been under pressure throughout this series. He has constantly been targeted by the Pakistan batsmen, something which continued in Birmingham, but has continued to chip in with wickets and now has nine in the series at 39.33, albeit his economy stands at 4.36. He worked with Saqlain Mushtaq during the Old Trafford Test and, on the final afternoon at Edgbaston, managed to pitch the ball consistently on a full length with a touch more loop.The spell just after lunch that he and Broad put together in partnership there, quite simply the difference with his bowling in that spell was his discipline of length, Bayliss said.Weve all seen him before probably falling a little bit short, but I thought that spell he got it pretty much spot on, bowled a little bit wider of the off stump into the rough, coming into the stumps and putting the pressure on the batter. Its a bit harder then to run down the wicket and hit over the top and play reverse sweeps and sweeps. I thought he put the pressure on very well there.Englands victory has given them a chance to ascend to the top of the world rankings if they finish the series 3-1 and India do not secure a 3-0 victory over West Indies. Bayliss did not quite say it was a position they were ready for but, as Alastair Cook acknowledged after the Test when he talked about the side toughening up, he was encouraged by the comeback during a match they had been behind in for more than two days.It does give the guys confidence that they can win games from a little bit behind, that anythings possible, he said. I still think we are a little way off. I thought there were signs in this game that some of the more inexperienced players were starting to show a little bit of maturity. ' ' '