See, the thing about being a playoff team, which is what the Houston Texans are this year, is you have no idea what your draft pick is at the end of the regular season. Other teams are “lucky” in that respect that they don’t have to guess anymore. But this is the world we live in and we’re just gonna have to make the most of it.

To answer the question of where our first round pick is, I can simply answer, “I don’t know.” Nobody does yet. But the four letter network, bless their cold, dead hearts, have projected...

All football games have context. The context for this game blew up when the Jacksonville Jaguars defeated the Tennessee Titans 41-7 to clinch the AFC South division. A very sarcastic thank you to the folks from Possum Holler for showing up and playing a competitive football game there. It’s good to know they weren’t phoning it in (eye roll). At any rate, the Texans clearly were not trying their best because of those results, so it is hard to reach any conclusions from this game individually.

However, we always look at the numbers because the numbers themselves can tell us...

The Houston Texans 2025-26 regular season is over. So you know what that means.

What? No, not playoff coverage, that’s exactly what they’d expect us to do. No, we won’t go into the Texans current nine-game winning streak going into said playoffs. Instead, we’ll take a quick look at the list of opponents for next season! Next season the Texans will face the AFC North and NFC East, the second-place AFC schedule, and the Green Bay Packers.

Houston Texans 2026 opponents

Indianapolis Colts x 2
Tennessee Titans x 2
Jacksonville Jaguars x 2
Baltimore Ravens
Pittsburgh Steelers
Cleveland Browns...

The day started with a division title within sight. The Tennessee Titans even opened up a 7-0 lead on the Jacksonville Jaguars, so the Texans played most of their starters in the first half. Nico Collins and Kamari Lassiter were healthy scratches and they could have used both players in the first half. However, the Texans still built a 20-10 lead in the first half in spite of some lackluster play on defense and their customary foot shooting on offense.

The Jaguars quickly began to pull away from the Titans and the Texans will to win seemingly slipped away with...

After 17 weeks and several bottles of antacids, the Houston Texans’ path in the playoffs are now clear as mud; which is still an improvement over where it was before which was *shrug emoji.*

So let’s break down what the Texans’ possible playoff seeds could be.

Texans 3-seed:
TEXANS WIN
JAGS LOSE

Texans 5-seed:
TEXANS WIN
JAGS WIN

-or-

TEXANS LOSE
BRONCOS WIN
JETS WIN

Texans 6-seed:
TEXANS LOSE
CHARGERS WIN
JETS WIN

-or-

TEXANS LOSE
BRONCOS WIN
BILLS WIN

Texans 7-seed:

TEXANS LOSE
CHARGERS WIN
BILLS WIN

Anything can happen today, so keep yourself parked in that chair and...

There is one week left in the NFL regular season. No, YOU’RE getting emotional. And while the Texans punched their ticket to the playoffs last week, their slot in the playoffs is not yet certain. Depending on how the ping pong balls fall, the Texans could still win their division and, presumably a three seed with a Saturday afternoon playoff game, or fall all the way to seventh, and get a Saturday afternoon playoff game.

We won’t know until the end of Sunday Night Football tomorrow. But what we do know is who will be able to watch the Texans...

This Sunday, the Houston Texans end their regular season with a tilt against the Indianapolis Colts. For a good bit of the season, this game seemed like it would hold the key to the Texans’ season. However, by virtue of Houston’s victory in LA last week, the Texans are in the playoffs and the Colts look to avoid a losing season after starting the year 8-2. While the Texans have a playoff spot locked up, they do not know who, or even where they will play. Depending on the actions on Sunday, they could play anywhere from Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Jacksonville,...

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It’s hard to say people in this business are friends. Some of us are, but most of us are casual colleagues that run into each other every now and then. I have been doing this five questions feature for four or five years now. Chris Shepard from Stampede Blue has been a constant throughout that time and is one of the nicest guys in the business. We traded questions again even though he undoubtedly is in the mood just to get this season over with.

There can be no doubt that the Colts finish to the season has been about...

Welcome to week 17 of the Cyclone tracker!

This is where we follow our resident weather-themed duo in rookie receivers Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel, both out of Iowa State (hence, the “Cyclone” twins).

As always, there will be analysis, projections, commentary, and relevant updates that happen in real time.

Jayden Higgins, Jaylin Noel statistics vs. Chargers

Jayden Higgins

Position: WR

Projected Week 17 storm path: 3.0 targets, 2.5 receptions, 25.5 yards, 0.1 TD, 4.5 fantasy points

Actual Week 17 path: 4 targets, 2 receptions, 88 yards (44.0 avg.), 1 TD, 16.8 fantasy pts

**Total stats through Week...

One of the things I have brought up in passing is that the Texans defense makes life miserable for opposing quarterbacks. Unfortunately, I have not taken the time to lay that out statistically and that is completely on me. This is a space where we dedicate ourselves to the data side of things. So, we will go through a systematic game by game approach to look at the Texans defense and what this means for the next round of the Texans 2025 season.

The NFL is a quarterback driven league by design. As a business model, professional sports only get...

Out with the old, in with the new.

There was a time when the Indianapolis Colts ruled the AFC South. Peyton Manning was torching all the division rivals and the Texans were still trying to find their identity.

In that same era, quarterback Philip Rivers was gun slinging for the then San Diego Chargers, prior to retiring.

This week, the youthful, energetic, pack-of-wild-dogs that are the Houston Texans 2025 defense are taking on Philip Rivers and the no-longer-on-top Colts.

If you caught last weekend’s Colts game against Jacksonville Jaguars, you saw an un-retired Philip Rivers look as if he might...