The Houston Texans need to trim their training camp roster by Tuesday, August 26th at 4 p.m. EST from 90 to 53. Follow along LIVE as we update the positional battles and roster cuts throughout the today and tomorrow.

There are quite a few final positional battles still undecided heading into the week. Namely, the final cornerback spots are a three-way heat between Tremon Smith, D’Angelo Ross, and Arthur Maulet. Additionally, the running back room is a conundrum; is Joe Mixon healthy? Has Dameon Pierce done enough? Are we keeping a fullback? How many RBs are we keeping? The other...

It is certainly better to win football games than lose football games and your Houston Texans defeated the Detroit Lions 26-7. There were no starters playing in this one on either side. What remained was some young guys and journeymen fighting for jobs. So, while the final result might not have been important for either team, there certainly some individual plays and performances that were important to the coaching staff as they make the final decisions on the 53 man roster.

The focus on most of training camp has been on the offense in general and the offensive line specifically....

Good morning guys, gals, and non-binary pals and welcome to the final week of the preseason. Today, your Houston Texans travel back to the Midwest to take on a potential NFC contender in the Detroit Lions.

Seeing as this is the final week of the preseason, I would fully expect most of the starters to either be sealed in bubble wrap for the regular season or, at most, getting a single drive in on either side of the ball before breaking out the bubble wrap.

So this week will be a battle of the bubble players. All the players who...

The final Houston Texans preseason game is here! Today, the Texans team has traveled up north to face the Detroit Lions, one of the most formidable opponents in the NFC. Houston hosted Detroit during the 2024 regular season, with Detroit coming away with a 26-23 win thanks to a game-winning field goal in the final seconds. This was one of the most gut-wrenching losses of the ‘24 season, so vengeance even in the preseason is more than welcome!

For those athletes that will be suiting up and taking the field today, this final preseason game is the culmination of years...

The Houston Texans have a wide receiver who has quietly put together a very consistent training camp, and his name is Xavier Hutchinson.

Hutchinson was drafted by Houston in the sixth round of the 2023 NFL Draft, and he’s only gotten better over the past two years.

At first glance, you might look at his stats and question his impact, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Hutchinson has been buried on the depth chart behind Nico Collins, Tank Dell, John Metchie III, and even Stefon Diggs during his time in Houston, which meant limited chances to truly shine.

Fast...

Sometimes, trying to put the final pieces together to a championship roster can take the team’s identity into unexpected places. The high flying Kansas City Chiefs offense that led to the rise of Patrick Mahomes ultimately found more championships as a station-to-station offense. The defending champions, the Philadelphia Eagles, excavated their way to the top of the heap focusing less on points and more on defense…and, y’know, a healthy spoonful of Saquon Barkely every single game of the season. In their desperation to just reach the summit, the Buffalo Bills have revamped their highly productive, Josh Allen-led offenses no less...

Tomorrow, the Houston Texans take on the Detroit Lions in their third and final preseason game ahead of the 2025 season. Through two games, the Texans have had plenty to be happy with from their offensive line and backups considering most other starters have sat. Along with getting healthy, the Texans have emphasized getting their rookies up to speed along with finding solutions at several key depth positions. Allthewhile, several players have stood out from the 90 players on the roster and that led me to ask this week’s Battle Red Blog Groupthink:

Through two preseason games, who has...

In eight years of crafting this series articles, there have been few rosters as difficult to determine the Final Cut as this one. Every decision hurts. Between recent injuries, players returning from injury, a jumbled RB room, and a mixed bag of backup cornerbacks, there are 60 worthy players for a 53-man roster. To put it another way, there are seven players who would make another team’s roster. Three short off-season ago, the number of “worthy” players was closer to 45….

This updated Rosterology has quite a few shifts. Brevin Jordan’s injury and the subsequent[ trade of John Metchie for...

As we move closer and closer to the 2025-2026 season, it starts to be time to reset our expectations and our methods. In the radio business, they say that your audience turns over every 15 minutes. I’m not sure how often it turns over in the blog business, but there is bound to be some turnover. In particular, SBNation has rolled out a new design and a new system behind the scenes for us. There will be people attracted to the new design and there will be people that are turned off by the new design.

I’m sure the powers...

Every year the NFL polls current players on who is the best among their peers. Once the votes are in, that list runs as a TV series called The NFL’s Top 100.

We detailed Houston Texans pash rushing force-of-nature Danielle Hunter making this year’s list two weeks ago.

As it stands right now, Hunter’s teammates, Nico Collins, C.J. Stroud and Will Anderson Jr. have joined him.

As of this writing, the league has only revealed 21-100 on this year’s list. Conspicuously absent so far is the man some are calling the best cornerback in Houston Texans history: Derek Stingley Jr....

The Day After the Day After…when the raw, immediate emotions from the aftermath of a game diminish into the realm of clarity and the proverbial (or literal) hangover no longer haunts the mind. With that, a review of Preseason Week 2:

Slovis takes the lead in the QB3 battle. Again, without insight into the coaches’ room, if going off game action, Slovis appears to be in good shape to open as the QB3 for the team. Given the 3rd quarter, Slovis made the most of it. While his numbers weren’t eye-popping (5-of-12 for 51 yards), he did make some game...

The Houston Texans defeated the Carolina Panthers 20-3 in an uneventful game between two teams at different stages of development. The Panthers are most aptly described as “perpetually on the rise.” That is how we used to describe SMU at TCU. They are like an etch a sketch that always seems to get erased just as it is building something. The Texans took on the Panthers during a joint practice and based on the observers who were there, the Texans dominated those as well.

The second preseason game has turned into the dress rehearsal for most teams. The first and...