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Getty Images Colts punter Rigoberto Sanchez underwent cancer surgery Dec. 1. He could return to the team this week. Special teams coach Bubba Ventrone told reporters Tuesday that the team is hopeful Sanchez can practice and play this week. Sanchez has missed the past two games, though he has...

Getty Images The Texans claimed running back Dontrell Hilliard off waivers from the Browns on Tuesday. Hilliard played five games for the Browns, seeing action on 22 offensive snaps and 74 on special teams. He had five carries for 19 yards and one reception for 2 yards. In three seasons with...

Getty Images The Colts have lowered the capacity for Sunday’s game against the Texans. They team announced Monday that it will allow 10,000 fans to attend the game at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Colts originally announced they would host up to 12,500. They lowered the attendance number due to a...

Getty Images The Houston Texans will finish their 2020 season without defensive tackle Brandon Dunn. According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, Dunn fractured his pelvis in Sunday’s loss to the Chicago Bears. Dunn managed to walk off the field to the sideline before leaving the field...

Getty Images The Texans need a new General Manager. They need a new head coach. They have a franchise quarterback, one to whom they committed $111 million in guarantees and one they hope to keep longer than the next five years. Deshaun Watson makes the Texans’ job attractive, and considering...

Getty Images Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson left Sunday’s loss to the Bears for one play after taking a hit on the elbow from linebacker Roquan Smith and he took several other shots over the course of the game. Watson was sacked six times and hit 10 times overall in the 36-7 loss, which led...

USA TODAY Sports Khalil Mack didn’t have a sack in the last four games and he was off the stat sheet entirely in last Sunday’s loss to the Lions, so it was a welcome development when he forced a fumble in the first quarter this Sunday. Mack also recovered the ball and he came up with another...

Getty Images Every week we bring you all the inactives from the 1 p.m. ET games in one post, constantly updated with the latest information. One of the biggest 1 p.m. kickoffs features the Cardinals and the Giants from MetLife Stadium. Both teams are trying to find their way into the playoffs...

Getty Images For one day, at least, Mitchell Trubisky was better than Deshaun Watson. Trubisky, the much-maligned quarterback whom the Bears selected in the 2017 NFL draft, 10 picks before the Texans selected Watson, played very well today in a 36-7 win over the Texans. Trubisky completed 24...

Getty Images Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson took a licking, with the Bears sacking him six times and hitting him 11 times overall. Watson hit his right elbow on the helmet of Bears linebacker Roquan Smith with 2:16 left in the third quarter on a third-and-one incompletion. A.J. McCarron...

Getty Images Buddy Howell had only five career carries before Sunday. He had 11 carries for 42 yards against the Bears. The Texans leaned on Howell after unexpectedly placing David Johnson on the COVID-19 reserve list Friday. Interim coach Romeo Crennel said Johnson did not test positive...

Getty Images A recent story published by SI.com took a detailed and careful look at the questions surrounding the curious and sudden rise of Texans executive V.P. of football operations and interim G.M. Jack Easterby. On Friday, Texans interim coach Romeo Crennel was asked for his reaction...

Getty Images When Texans interim head coach Romeo Crennel met with reporters on Friday, he said that running back David Johnson might not make the trip to Chicago this weekend because of a personal matter. Johnson will miss the game and a more specific reason for his absence came to light...

Getty Images Week 14 of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Rams and it continues with 14 more games on Sunday, which means that the 28 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images The Bears got linebacker Khalil Mack back on the practice field Friday, but it’s not clear if he’ll be in the lineup on Sunday. Mack missed Wednesday and Thursday with a shoulder injury and got in a limited session to close out the week. He is listed as questionable to face the...

Getty Images Former NFL defensive tackle Louis Nix was shot in the chest on Tuesday at a Jacksonville gas station as part of a robbery. Via Corley Peel of News4Jax, Nix was putting air into the tires of his car when he was confronted by men shining a flashlight in his eyes. When he shoved them...

Getty Images Kick returner DeAndre Carter won’t be facing his former team this weekend. The Bears announced that Carter has been placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Thursday. The team announced that a member of the organization had tested positive earlier in the day and Carter’s stay on the...

Getty Images Texans running back David Johnson missed Thursday’s practice. The team listed his absence as not injury related. In nine games this season, Johnson has 129 touches for 613 yards and five touchdowns. The Texans also added running back Duke Johnson to the practice report with a...

Getty Images A bad shotgun snap by Texans center Nick Martin derailed Houston’s chance to upend the Colts on Sunday. On Thursday, Martin explained what happened on the play, and how he has reacted to it. “Plain and simple I got zoned in on the play too much and I didn’t do my first job, which...

Getty Images When the Bears faced the Chiefs last season, the days leading up to the game featured plenty of discussion about the fact that Chicago opted to trade up to the No. 2 spot in the 2017 draft in order to draft Mitchell Trubisky while Patrick Mahomes was on the board. Mahomes made it...