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Getty Images Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt would prefer to spend February 1 in Miami, getting ready to play in the Super Bowl the next day. But he’s got a pretty good secondary option in New York that night. Watt will host Saturday Night Live on February 1, the show announced today. Past...

Getty Images Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins injured his ribs at one point in the first half of the team’s playoff loss to the Chiefs and went for X-rays during halftime before returning to action. While that might have suggested a fairly clean bill of health, it appears Hopkins didn’t...

Getty Images The Texans wasted no time in replacing Romeo Crennel. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Texans are promoting line coach Anthony Weaver to defensive coordinator. The 39-year-old Weaver has been with the Texans since 2016, and has also coached for the Browns, Bills, and Jets...

Getty Images The Texans now have another vacancy, and the news might be that Bill O’Brien isn’t going to be the one to fill it. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, veteran defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel isn’t expected to return, at least with that title, next season. The...

Getty Images As if it wasn’t obvious before Sunday, the Texans made it even more clear: Bill O’Brien wields the power in the franchise. The Texans fired senior vice president of football administration Chris Olsen, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports. Olsen negotiated contracts for...

Getty Images Ten weeks ago, the Chiefs and Titans met, in Week 10. Tennessee won at home, 35-32. The Chiefs could have, and arguably should have, prevailed. Derrick Henry got his yards for the Titans, 188 of them. Patrick Mahomes got his yards for the Chiefs, 446 of them. But it was Mahomes’...

Getty Images Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien said after his team’s postseason-ending loss last weekend that he expects defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel to return. But there are some changes coming to the defensive staff. Texans outside linebackers coach and senior defensive assistant...

Getty Images The Chiefs want to wait another day before making a decision on defensive tackle Chris Jones, coach Andy Reid said earlier Friday. Thus, it comes as no surprise they list Jones as questionable for the AFC Championship Game on Sunday. Jones’ calf injury kept him out of the...

Getty Images The Chiefs’ injury report did not change Thursday. Tight end Travis Kelce remained a limited participant with his knee injury. It does not appear any more of a concern than it was last week when Kelce was limited all three practices before catching 10 passes for 134 yards and...

Getty Images Courtland Sutton finished the 2019 season as the clear No. 1 receiver in Denver and his work in that role has earned him a trip to Orlando for the Pro Bowl. The Broncos announced on Wednesday that Sutton has been named to the AFC Pro Bowl roster as a replacement for Texans wide...

Getty Images Bill O’Brien is not only safe, he’s going to keep doing two jobs, according to Bill O’Brien. The Texans coach said Monday — after an incredible playoff collapse against the Chiefs — that the team has no plans to hire a General Manager. “The way I see it right now, it stays the...

Getty Images The Texans gave up two first downs and 46 yards in the first quarter of Sunday’s divisional-round game. Of course, two dropped third-down passes by the Chiefs helped. The Chiefs ended up with 434 yards and 51 points in a total team meltdown by the Texans. Speculation about the...

Getty Images The NFL saw a slight uptick in TV viewership for the divisional round of the playoffs. The league says that average viewership for the four divisional round games was 33.2 million viewers, a 2 percent increase over the 32.6 million viewers that last year’s divisional round...

Getty Images During his postgame press conference, Bill O’Brien explained his decision to run a fake punt deep in his own end while holding a 24-7 lead by saying “we felt like we needed 50 points.” The Texans actually needed 52 since the Chiefs scored 51, but who’s counting? If that’s truly...

Getty Images Seahawks defensive end Jadeveon Clowney wants to play for a contender. That contender could be the team with which he spent 2019. Seattle coach Pete Carroll told reporters on Monday that the team has prioritized re-signing Clowney, and that Carroll believes Clowney wants to stay...

Getty Images Losing a playoff game you once led 24-0 is going to lead to a lot of questions for and about a team’s head coach and Bill O’Brien is facing those questions after losing 51-31 to the Chiefs on Sunday. O’Brien’s decisions to kick a field goal on fourth-and-one and fake a punt in...

Getty Images The “Andy Reid can’t coach in the playoffs” takes were loaded and ready to fire. Some went off prematurely. And then something strange happened. He began to. In his own way. There wasn’t a lot of yelling and screaming and flapping of arms from the veteran coach, but he made sure...

Getty Images Yesterday was a crushing loss for the Texans, but at least they can comfort themselves with their future, and how they can use the 26th pick in the 2020 NFL Draft to make a good team better. Oh wait, they already traded that one to the Dolphins. Sorry guys, that was probably too...

Getty Images Will Fuller continued to show yesterday that when he’s well, he’s a game-changer. But the Texans wide receiver says that changing his availability will be his top priority for next season. “That’s a big goal for me to play all 16,” Fuller said, via Aaron Wilson of the Houston...

Getty Images Carlos Hyde has done enough moving around over the last two years to know that he doesn’t want to make another change this offseason. Hyde left the 49ers for the Browns as a free agent in 2018 and then got traded to the Jaguars during the season. He signed with the Chiefs after...