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Getty Images Patriots running back Rex Burkhead was carted from the sideline to the locker room early in the third quarter. The team reports Burkhead has a knee injury and won’t return. Only 1:39 into the second half, Burkhead was injured as he was tackled for a 1-yard loss by Justin Reid and...

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. The Saints will have a new starting quarterback for Sunday’s game against the Falcons after placing Drew Brees on injured reserve and they’ll also be...

USA TODAY Sports Texans executive V.P. of football operations and interim General Manager Jack Easterby has gotten his baptism by fire in recent days. Now, efforts are underway in the media to absolve him of any actual or perceived sins. The first sin seemed to be unbridled ambition. (Although...

Getty Images The Patriots are getting some reinforcements at running back. Sony Michel, who hasn’t played since a nine-carry, 117-yard performance in Week Three, is being activated from injured reserve today, according to Mike Reiss of ESPN. Damien Harris has emerged as the Patriots’ top...

Getty Images It sounds like the Patriots will have cornerback Stephon Gilmore in the lineup when they take on the Texans this weekend. Gilmore has missed the last three games with a knee injury and he’s been limited in practice this week, which led him to say that it has been “tough not...

Getty Images Week 11 of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Seahawks and it continues with 12 more games on Sunday, which means that the 24 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 As questions continue to be raised about who’s calling the shots in Houston, Texans owner Cal McNair insists that the person making the personnel decisions next season will not be interim General Manager Jack Easterby. Echoing comments from Texans President Jamey Rootes, McNair...

Getty Images Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt wants everyone to know that he does not accept being 2-7. “I stress that this situation, this feeling, where we are, can never, ever be acceptable in any fashion,” Watt said, via the Houston Chronicle. “I personally don’t think you should ever...

Getty Images The Bears claimed receiver/return specialist DeAndre Carter off waivers from the Texans. Carter played only four special teams snaps Sunday, and the Texans cut him the next day. He appeared in all nine of Houston’s games this season, making one reception for 8 yards, while...

Getty Images Texans executive vice president of football operations and interim General Manager Jack Easterby’s role in the organization has been the focus of much discussion in recent weeks and much of that focus has been on how much power he’ll have in the organization following the firing of...

USA TODAY Sports Former Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins made a catch for the ages on Sunday. Current Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, along with other former Hopkins teammates, witnessed the moment as it happened. “We were on the plane ride coming back from Cleveland,” Watson told reporters...

Getty Images The Texans removed outside linebacker Jacob Martin from the COVID-19 reserve list, the team announced. Martin tested positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 4 but has tested negative multiples times and remained asymptomatic, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports. Martin missed two...

Getty Images Running back Sony Michel returned to practice on November 6, but the Patriots have not yet made a call about whether or not to activate him from injured reserve. Michel is working his way back from a quad injury that landed him on the list three games into the season. On Tuesday...

Getty Images When the Texans face the Patriots on Sunday, the combined ages of the two head coaches will be the oldest in NFL history. Houston is coached by 73-year-old Romeo Crennel and New England is coached by 68-year-old Bill Belichick. Their combined age of 141 years is the oldest ever...

Getty Images Before joining the Texans in a a front office that he quickly parlayed into a much bigger one, executive V.P. of football operations and interim G.M. Jack Easterby worked for the Patriots. In a Monday conference call with Houston media in advance of the Week 11 game between the two...

Getty Images C.J. Prosise returned kickoffs for the Texans on Sunday, and Will Fuller had a punt return as the team reduced DeAndre Carter‘s role. Carter played only four special teams snaps. A day later, he is out of a job. The Texans are cutting Carter, Aaron Wilson of the Houston...

USA TODAY Sports As the pandemic reaches unprecedented levels, some sports teams are somehow welcoming more fans for games. The Lions will be going in the other direction. Via Chris Thomas of the Detroit Free Press, an emergency order issued Sunday by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer...

Getty Images Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson struggled in windy conditions in Cleveland on Sunday, and he said afterward that he isn’t accustomed to playing in that kind of weather. “It’s tough, especially if you don’t get to experience it on a consistent basis,” Watson said, via the Houston...

Getty Images It took 46 minutes and 28 seconds of game time, which saw the kickoff delayed 37 minutes by weather, but the Browns-Texans game has its first touchdown. Nick Chubb‘s 9-yard run early in the fourth quarter has given the Browns a 10-0 lead over the Texans. It seems insurmountable...

Getty Images Neither wind nor rain nor hail nor the Texans stayed Nick Chubb from the swift completion of his appointed rounds. In a game delayed 37 minutes by weather and played in a strong wind, Chubb returned to action with a 100-yard game and Myles Garrett wreaked havoc on defense as the...