Houston Texans Thread 2021 - Caserio Picking Up The Pieces

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Very surprised at the Greg Mancz and Angelo Blackson cuts. Somewhat surprised at Weeks. Jordan Thomas should land somewhere. Him and Akins were basically a coin flip.
 

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Houston rounded their roster up over Labor Day Weekend. Greg Mancz, C.J. Prosise, and others were added to the practice squad. Brent Qvale and Jon Weeks were signed back to the active 53-man roster. Angelo Blackson and Jordan Thomas found new homes with DeAndre Hopkins in Arizona after being released this past weekend.

Yesterday, Houston started practicing for the first week of the 2020 season and the Kansas City Chiefs. Already, there’s surprising injury news. Put the Kool-Aid back on the shelf. Gareon Conley has been placed on injured reserve. One of Houston’s starting outside cornerbacks will be on the sideline for a minimum of three weeks to start this season, which could be disastrous, for a team with shoddy cornerback play to begin with that has to play Kansas City, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh during the first month of the season.

Joining Conley on the IR is rookie receiver Isaiah Coulter, who is listed as suffering from a neck injury. This could be more of an IR stash than anything as Houston already has a slew of receivers on the roster.

There is good news, though. After missing the entirety of training camp with a slight stress fracture (whatever that means), Keke Coutee is back at practice. Hopefully Houston can get him going again quickly and he starts catching some easy drag routes he can scamper up field with as early as this Thursday night.

- Battle Red Blog
 

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Your Houston Texans will keep the following 53 players on the active roster to start the season:

Offense:

QB (2): Deshaun Watson, AJ McCarron

RB (3): Duke Johnson, David Johnson, Buddy Howell

FB (1): Cullen Gillaspia

WR (7): Isaiah Coulter, Kenny Stills, Randall Cobb, DeAndre Carter, Will Fuller, Brandin Cooks, Keke Coutee

TE (3): Jordan Akins, Darren Fells, Kahale Warring

T (4): Laremy Tunsil, Tytus Howard, Roderick Johnson, Charlie Heck

G (3): Max Scharping, Senio Kelemete, Zach Fulton

C (1): Nick Martin

Defense:


DT (1): Ross Blacklock

NT (1): Brandon Dunn

DE (4): J.J. Watt, Carlos Watkins, Jonathan Greenard, Charles Omenihu

OLB (5): Brennan Scarlett, Jacob Martin, Whitney Mercilus, Peter Kalambayi, Duke Ejiofor

ILB (4): Benardrick McKinney, Zach Cunningham, Dylan Cole, Tyrell Adams

CB (8): Bradley Roby, John Reid, Lonnie Johnson Jr., Vernon Hargreaves III, Phillip Gaines, Keion Crossen, Gareon Conley, Cornell Armstrong

DB (1): Michael Thomas

S (3): Justin Reid, Eric Murray, A.J. Moore

Special Teams:

K (1): Ka’imi Fairbairn

P (1): Bryan Anger

This is the official roster as of this Sunday, before Houston completes their Injured Reserve tinkering. Expect Ejiofor and Coulter to hit IR and Houston to add P.J. Hall and Jon Weeks and maybe Brent Qvale o the active roster.

Other than that, this is pretty much the 53 guys the Texans will send to Arrowhead Stadium to open the NFL’s 2020 campaign on Thursday night against the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.

- Battle Red Blog
 

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Re-watching the Chiefs/Texans game, and it felt like Kelly called the first 7 minutes of the game, and O'Brien called the rest. What a mess that game was. We looked like we were in game 3 of the pre-season, and the Chiefs looked like they were heading for the home stretch in the regular season. A repeat of last week would be a disaster against the Ravens. Can't have all those missed tackles, and can't try to solely keep Deshaun as a pocket passer. He's a dynamic player and they need to realize that.



 
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