Dalton Wasserman and Max Chadwick of PFF released their 2026 Running Back Rankings recently and you have to scroll pretty far to see the Houston Texans new tailback, David Montgomery.

Despite all the local hype from both Detroit and H-Town, it seems the folks at PFF, and their grading system, don’t hold the runner in very high regard. Meanwhile, the Lions’ Jahmyr Gibbs, who sat ahead of Montgomery on Detroit’s depth chart, lands at #2 overall.

Here’s what they had to say about D-Mo:

26. David Montgomery, Houston Texans

Montgomery enters his age-29 season coming off...

I remember draft weekend in 2023 like it was yesterday. Absolutely, there was a ton of giddiness over getting Will Anderson and C.J. Stroud back to back. However, the draft also featured Tank Dell. However, one of the later picks I was most excited about was Xavier Hutchinson. Why? The answer is actually pretty simple. There are two things that people know about me if they read these features enough. Number one, I am more or less the numbers guy around these parts. Number two, I don’t watch a ton of college football.

I often joke around draft time when...

The second edition of the roster prediction series is here. The roster is little changed since early June, but the tides still change around NRG as the World Cup comes to an end and training camp gets underway soon.

Similar to how NCAA Basketball’s Bracketology works, I’ll update the below with the Last Four (players) in the roster, the first four out, the biggest riser, and biggest faller. I’ll update this series every other Tuesday until the final 53-man roster is announced on Sunday, August 30th.

Initial Rosterology for 2026 featured several surprising faces including Dominique Robinson, Naquan Jones, and...

Early to mid-July is perhaps the deadest of times on the NFL calendar. Training camps are still a couple of weeks off. The big free agency news is done, and outside of some notable off-field player actions (more later), there really isn’t much to say about the NFL season. However, that does not mean that the Texans are sitting idly by just waiting for the opening of training camp. There is always the quest to upgrade the roster, looking to add some sort of depth. This is a constant of a team’s front office, and early/mid July is no exception....

A torrent of free agency moves and draft decisions made the Houston Texans the talk of the NFL offseason from March to May, building hype among a football-starved crowd and fanbase aching for a championship. Recently, it’s felt like everyone has been aching for the Texans to break through, with Super Bowl predictions cropping up everywhere from Lance Zierlein to Aaron Schatz! It’s like Texans mania had swept the country in June…that is, until the Los Angeles Rams traded for DE Myles Garrett. Leave it to the Rams to steal the headlines and make some blockbuster trade reminiscent of their...

This is the time of year where hot takes, crazy speculation and comments taken out of context turn into overblown national headlines. People want to talk football and in the absence of large quantities of news, stories are often manufactured for the sake of having a story.

Alongside those sorts of things, we get W-L predictions and Ranking lists. In the case of the latter, I present to you the PFF Quarterback Rankings: All 32 starters ahead of the 2026 NFL season.

At first glance, it shouldn’t surprise too many people that Buffalo Bill’s quarterback Josh Allen sits at the...

The Texans are in a somewhat awkward spot as the 2026 regular season approaches. It’s clear they have a talented roster capable of making a deep playoff run, but they haven’t been able to take that next step.

Since C.J. Stroud became Houston’s starting quarterback, the Texans have made the playoffs every season and have won at least one playoff game each year. Last season, however, there were several issues on the offensive side of the ball. One of the biggest was the play-calling in critical situations. Too often, it felt like Houston wasn’t putting their best players in positions...

As training camp approaches it is a good time to take a look at the players with something to prove in training camp. One of the key points that happens with a perennial playoff team is that you get seemingly good football players that don’t make the cut. Teams get 53 spots and 47 spots on Sunday. As the Texans aim to improve every unit on the field, some of the existing guys will have more to prove.

That is obviously more true of the offensive line than any other unit. The Texans added Wyatt Teller, Braden Smith, and Evan...

The roster is a fluid concept. Players can come and go, and just because a player has packed their bags and left NRG Stadium doesn’t mean they’re gone for good.

There are multiple former Houston Texans still available via free agency. The Texans have the 11th most cap space available with $28M to spend on their roster. That provides them with plenty of ammunition to stock up on one or two depth pieces to complement the current team. Instead of bringing in an unknown commodity, they could choose to re-sign a former Texan to bolster the roster. The below options...

Well, we’ve finally made it. The big ol’ American birthday is upon us. On the official calendar, America celebrates 250 years of life as an independent nation. The US government says that happens this Saturday, with the observed federal holiday being Friday the 3rd. There has already been more than a few events to kick off those celebrations, with more expected. It is not every year that your country turns 250. Expect a lot of representations of America, highlighting aspects of American history, life and culture.

Yet, one aspect of American culture will not be at the forefront this weekend....

24 years into this thing and I can’t remember a single time when ESPN boldly stated the Houston Texans were Super Bowl bound. But, here we are.

Over at ESPN.com, writer Benjamin Solak dropped his 10 predictions for 2026 NFL season. Lo and behold, prediction #4, right after Chiefs missing the playoffs, we get this gem:

The Texans will win the AFC

It feels like many people are selling Texans stock following C.J. Stroud‘s playoff disaster class in 2025. I’m happy to scoop it all up at a discount.

If the Texans really do...

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