Texans Season Predictions and Players to Watch

We are days away from the Houston Texans’ 2025 campaign. They face a tough combination of NFC and AFC West along with three other divisional winners. This slog of a schedule, a new offensive line, and an unproven offensive coordinator make for a highly volatile prediction of the season ahead.

And that’s exactly why I proposed a list of questions to the writers to assess their excitement before the season officially kicks off Sunday.

What do you predict for the Texans this season?

1. What is the Texans record?
2. If they make the playoffs, far do the Texans go?
3. Who is the player you are most looking forward to watching this season?
4. Who is one name everyone should make sure to know before the season starts?

VBallRetired:

Okay, in order:

1) I think the Texans go 11-6 this season based on a stronger defense and a slightly better offense.

2) I think they make the divisional round again and lose to the Chiefs or Ravens.

3) I think Will Anderson is ready to take the next step and become one of the league’s top five edge rushers.

4) I’ll go Nick Chubb here. If Mixon misses the bulk of the season he could return to the land of 1000 yard rushers.

Patrick Haughton:

After long consideration (about six minutes) I have concluded that the Houston Texans will…

1. Finish with a 13-4 record, which is entirely possible if the offensive line makes the leap to just “average” and we avoid the injury bug that seems to bite the Astros every 15 minutes.

2) This is the year they get to the AFC Championship game. The ambitious side of me would say this is the year they get all the way but I’ve been a Texans fan too long to reach too far.

3) The first few games I always keep an eye and ear out for the rookies. So Aireontay Ersery, Jayden Higgins, and Jaylin Noel those are the names I’m most interested in watching early on. I also want to see Henry To’oTo’o since he had such a good training camp, I want to see if he’s taken another step up in his game. I also want to see how our secondary performs with all the key parts healthy and ready to go.

4) At this point, it’s hard to think of one name everyone should keep an eye on, but for me, I think it’s Calen Bullock or Kamari Lassiter, I can’t decide. They’ve looked really good in preseason and the secondary will only be as good as the performance of these two players.

L4Blitzer:

1) With so many questions about the offensive line and a rough schedule, give me the Stroud/Ryans 10-7 special (with +2/-3 variance). If that line solidifies, they can actually get a top 2 seed, but...