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DeAndre Hopkins is one of the best receivers in the NFL. He earned All-Pro honors the past two seasons. So you would think defenses would know where No. 10 is at all times. Somehow, the Colts blew the coverage on Hopkins late in the first half, leaving him standing all alone in the end zone...

Getty Images Colts receiver T.Y. Hilton is questionable for Thursday night’s showdown with the Texans. Hilton has missed the past three games with a calf injury. But he returned to a full practice Wednesday after missing the first two days of work. In 15 career games against the Texans...

Getty Images The Texans secondary is going to be shorthanded on Thursday night against the Colts, but the question of just how shorthanded they’ll be won’t be answered until shortly before kickoff. The team handed in its final injury report for the game and it shows that the team has ruled out...

Getty Images The Texans claimed cornerback Vernon Hargreaves off of waivers last week, but he didn’t get enough practice time with his new team to play in last Sunday’s loss to the Ravens. Hargreaves has had a bit more time to absorb the defense over the last few days, which hasn’t left him...

Getty Images The Colts held another walkthrough on Tuesday, which means that their injury report is another estimation of how much work players would have done during a traditional practice session. That estimation brought some optimism about left tackle Anthony Castonzo‘s status. Castonzo was...

Getty Images The Texans are expected to play without safeties Justin Reid and Mike Adams on Thursday night, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports. Reid and Adams were diagnosed with concussions Sunday. Texans coach Bill O’Brien said Tuesday any player with a concussion was unlikely to...

Getty Images Lost in the Myles Garrett and Colin Kaepernick sagas of last week was the fact that Antonio Brown had his interview with the NFL last Thursday in South Florida. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Brown remains hopeful that a decision will come “very soon.” There’s a...

Getty Images The folks at the Westgate Superbook have updated their Super Bowl odds. And they currently project a matchup of the New England Patriots and the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl LIV. The Saints are 7/5 favorites to win the NFC title, and the Patriots are 6/5 favorites to win the...

Getty Images The Colts were on the outside looking in at the playoffs at this time last week, but their positioning looks a lot better after Week 11. They beat the Jaguars on Sunday while the Texans lost to the Ravens, which led to Indianapolis leapfrogging Houston into first place in the AFC...

Getty Images Colts wide receiver T.Y. Hilton has missed the last three games with a calf injury and he said on Tuesday that he thought his season was over when he first suffered the injury in practice. That turned out not to be the case and Hilton is eyeing this Thursday’s game against the...

Getty Images The Colts will have to play a short-week game for first place in the division without their leading rusher. Via Zak Keefer of TheAthletic.com, Colts running back Marlon Mack had surgery to repair his broken hand this morning. He will certainly miss Thursday’s game against the...

Getty Images The Colts didn’t practice on Monday and they would have been very short on players if they had gotten on the field. Indianapolis plays Houston on Thursday night, so they issued an estimated practice report after holding a walkthrough on Monday. That report lists 11 players who...

Deshaun Watson got his leg caught underneath him on a sack by Jaylon Ferguson late in the first half Sunday. He stayed on the ground, but trainers never came out. The Texans called timeout, and the quarterback stayed in the game. He played 57 of 61 snaps, leaving for A.J. McCarron on the last...

Getty Images The race for MVP seems to shift and change on a weekly basis. This week, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson officially has emerged as the favorite. Via David Purdhum of ESPN.com, Caesars Sportsbook has installed Jackson as the 7-5 favorite to win the award. On Sunday, Jackson and...

Lamar Jackson is getting a lot of attention, and rightfully so. But lost in his latest episode of highlight-reel football was a Ravens defense that locked down the Texans yesterday, stomping a team with its own share of skill position talent 41-7. “I hope nobody on the team gets offended, but...

Getty Images Sunday’s showdown between the Texans and Ravens featured the latest blatant non-call of pass interference that wasn’t reversed via replay review. After the game, the player who was the victim of uncalled pass interference sounded off on social media. “As a leader in the NFL, we...

Getty Images Lamar Jackson got off to a slow start. He completed only one of his first six attempts for 12 yards. Jackson, though, got hot in the second quarter. His two touchdown passes have the Ravens out to a 14-0 halftime lead on the Texans. Jackson ended the first half 8-of-13 for 97...

Getty Images The Ravens opened the second half the way they closed the first half — with a touchdown. Baltimore scored on its final two possessions of the first half — not counting a one-play kneel down to end the second quarter — and opened the second half with a six-play, 78-yard drive...

Getty Images Game by game, against other contenders, the Ravens are proving they have a chance to do something they haven’t done since 2012. The Ravens dominated, annihilated, crushed, routed, smashed and otherwise embarrassed the Texans 41-7. At 8-2 and on a six-game winning streak, the...

Getty Images Among the many things that went against the Texans in Baltimore on Sunday was an early no-call on what appeared to be blatant pass interference on a fourth-down pass to wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins. Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey wasn’t flagged in real time and he wasn’t...