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Getty Images President Trump revisited the Colin Kaepernick situation on Wednesday afternoon. On Wednesday evening, the issue came up again during an appearance on FOX News. “If he has the ability,” Trump reiterated regarding Kaepernick’s prospects for a return to the NFL. “Look, you know, he...

Getty Images For the second time in less than a year, the President has said publicly that he has no issue with Colin Kaepernick playing in the NFL, as long as Kaepernick deserves it. And in explaining that caveat, Donald Trump implies that football reasons, and only football reasons, have kept...

Getty Images Like most black Americans, Texans associate head coach Romeo Crennel and his family have experienced racism over the course his life. During a conversation with Texans chairman Cal McNair and other members of the McNair family, Crennel recounted his wife being the only coaches’...

Getty Images The Houston Texans are the latest NFL team to announce that they will observe the Juneteenth holiday. The Texans announced today that employees on both the business side and the football side of the operation will have Friday off and are encouraged to reflect on how they can...

Getty Images The Commissioner is on the record regarding Colin Kaepernick. Ten days after creating a video that proclaimed “black lives matter” but omitted Kaepernick’s name, Roger Goodell has said that he wants a team to sign Kaepernick. “Well, listen, if he wants to resume his career in the...

Getty Images Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is among the Cowboys and Texans players who have tested positive for COVID-19. It served as a reminder that the NFL faces challenges to playing this season. The plan is to test players two to three times a week, hoping to catch positive cases...

Getty Images Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson has always encouraged kids to read, and launched a summer youth reading challenge in Houston. Now, he’s making his own addition to the book club. According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, Watson has authored a book called “Pass It On.”...

Getty Images When NFL teams convene again for training camp, how to handle players who test positively for COVID-19 will be among the main concerns. Because there will be positive tests. According to NFL Network, several players from both the Cowboys and Texans have tested positive for...

Getty Images The report suggested a much larger number. The truth is that, for now, only a handle of Cowboys and Texans have tested positive for the coronavirus. Per a league source, two Cowboys and two Texans have tested positive. That’s four in all. The number, of course, could increase...

Getty Images Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott has been identified as one of the four Texans and Cowboys players who have tested positive for COIVD-19. But the team isn’t saying anything about it. “Due to federal and local privacy laws, we are unable to provide information regarding the...

Getty Images The kneeling-equals-disrespect crowd recently has turned their attention to the U.S. national soccer team, which recently repealed a rule that prohibits players from kneeling during the anthem. The rule, passed in 2017 after Megan Rapinoe kneeled in support of Colin Kaepernick, is...

Getty Images Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told athletic directors from the state’s Football Bowl Subdivision programs to expect 50 percent capacity at football games this fall, Dan Wolken of USA Today reports. It stands to reason that the state’s two NFL teams can expect the same. AT&T Stadium...

Getty Images The argument that kneeling during the national anthem constitutes disrespect of the flag is crumbling quickly. Texans defensive end J.J. Watt, in response to a Twitter user who predicted that Watt won’t be taking a knee during the anthem, made two comments. First, he said “don’t...

Getty Images Jadeveon Clowney remains a free agent. It’s not like he hasn’t had offers. The Browns made Clowney the best offer he has received, according to a report last month, and he didn’t bite. The Browns haven’t taken the hint, though. They have not given up on signing the defensive...

Getty Images The NFL generally and collectively seems to be keeping its head low and mouth shut on Colin Kaepernick, but for the unnamed team that recently called Seahawks coach Pete Carroll for information about a visit with Kaepernick from nearly three years ago. So which teams should be...

Getty Images Bill O’Brien has no problem with his players taking a knee for the national anthem. In fact, he will join them in protesting racial injustice and police brutality. “Yeah, I’ll take a knee. I’m all for it,” O’Brien told John McClain of the Houston Chronicle. “The players have a...

Getty Images The Bengals will be getting a smaller D.J. Reader than the Texans had on their defensive line in recent seasons. Reader was listed at 347 pounds while in Houston, but he’s down to around 320 pounds after making an effort to cut weight this offseason. Reader said he “changed a...

Getty Images Deshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins spoke. And Clemson University listened. Days after the Texans quarterback and his former teammate, now a Cardinals receiver, publicly objected to the ongoing attachment of John C. Calhoun to the university founded by his son-in-law, Calhoun...

Getty Images Texans coach Bill O’Brien has spoken both to the public and to his team about his concerns about police brutality since the death of George Floyd, and it’s earning him respect in the locker room. Houston defensive back Justin Reid said he has been thrilled to hear O’Brien and team...

Getty Images When the Bills were last on the field, they blew a 16-point lead to the Texans over the final 21 minutes of regulation in what ultimately became an overtime loss in the Wild Card round of the playoffs. More than five months have passed since that game, but the pain of the loss...