Levis And The Titans Host The Texans, Trying To Win Consecutive Games For 1st Time This Season – News18

HOUSTON (7-6) at TENNESSEE (5-8)

Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, CBS.

OPENING LINE: Titans by 2 1/2, based on FanDuel Sportsbook.

AGAINST THE SPREAD: Houston 6-7; Tennessee 6-7.

SERIES RECORD: Titans lead 23-19.

LAST MEETING: Texans received 19-14 on Dec. 24, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee.

LAST WEEK: Texans misplaced 30-6 on the New York Jets; Titans beat Dolphins 28-27.

TEXANS OFFENSE: OVERALL (9), RUSH (25), PASS (4), SCORING (13)

TEXANS DEFENSE: OVERALL (20), RUSH (8), PASS (26), SCORING (16)

TITANS OFFENSE: OVERALL (25), RUSH (18), PASS (24), SCORING (25)

TITANS DEFENSE: OVERALL (17), RUSH (14), PASS (22), SCORING (17T)

TURNOVER DIFFERENTIAL: Texans plus-8; Titans minus-6.

TEXANS PLAYER TO WATCH: If rookie QB C.J. Stroud can’t play, Davis Mills will begin. He struggled because the starter for a lot of the previous two seasons, going 5-22-1 in 28 video games, with 26 begins because the Texans have been among the many NFL’s worst groups. He is 1-2 with 5 touchdowns and two interceptions in three profession begins in opposition to the Titans. Stroud ranks second within the NFL with 3,531 yards passing and fifth with a 98.7 passer ranking.

TITANS PLAYER TO WATCH: Rookie QB Will Levis. He drove the Titans on two TD drives within the span of 51 seconds of their large win Monday night time in Miami. He threw for a profession-excessive 327 yards and a TD, changing into the fifth rookie in franchise historical past with at the least 300 yards passing in a recreation. Levis ranks third amongst all rookies with 1,593 yards passing and is 3-4 as a starter.

KEY INJURIES: Texans WR Nico Collins has a calf harm. … LB Blake Cashman and CB Tavierre Thomas have hamstring accidents. … Rookie DE Will Anderson, the third total choose within the draft, has an ankle harm. … OT George Fant has a hip harm. … The Titans might be with out two-time Pro Bowl DL Jeffery Simmons for a second straight recreation and simply put beginning CB Kristian Fulton and DL Kyle Peko on injured reserve. … TE Josh Whyle (knee) additionally may miss a second consecutive recreation. … RG Daniel Brunskill has an injured ankle, and C Aaron Brewer has a neck subject. … Starting CB Sean Murphy-Bunting has an injured left knee.

SERIES NOTES: The Titans dominated this AFC South rivalry early in opposition to the staff that changed them in Houston. Now Tennessee has received two of the previous three. This might be DeMeco Ryans’ debut because the Texans’ head coach on this rivalry. The Titans might be sporting their Houston Oilers’ throwback uniforms for the second time this season. They additionally might be inducting Billy “White Shoes” Johnson into the staff’s Ring of Honor. A win Sunday would give the Titans 117 victories at Nissan Stadium, yet another than the previous Oilers managed on the Astrodome in Houston.

STATS & STUFF: The Titans are coming off the franchise’s first win in regulation when trailing by 14 or extra factors with lower than three minutes left. The Titans grew to become the primary staff to try this because the then-Oakland Raiders rallied to beat Pittsburgh on Sept. 12, 1976. … The Texans are coming off their greatest loss by margin this season. They are a recreation again of Jacksonville and tied with Indianapolis for second within the AFC South. … RB Devin Singletary had 65 yards dashing and his third landing of the season final week. He had a dashing TD in his previous two highway video games. … RB Dameon Pierce had a TD catch in his solely recreation in opposition to Tennessee final season. … Collins has 100 yards receiving and a TD in two of his previous three video games. He has a profession-excessive 1,004 yards receiving this season. … WR Robert Woods had seven receptions for 98 yards in his earlier recreation in opposition to Tennessee in 2021 whereas with the Rams. He led the Titans with 527 yards receiving final season. … DE Jonathan Greenard has a profession-excessive 10 sacks this season, the primary to achieve double figures since J.J. Watt had 16 in 2018. … The Titans are 10-5 beneath coach Mike Vrabel on a brief week. … Two-time NFL dashing chief Derrick Henry is the third participant with at the least 10 dashing TDs in six straight seasons. … Rookie RB Tyjae Spears had a profession-excessive 118 yards from scrimmage final week. … Titans WR DeAndre Hopkins had a staff-excessive seven catches for 124 yards and a TD final week. He ranks second in Texans historical past with 632 catches, 8,602 yards receiving and 54 TD catches. … OLB Harold Landry had a profession-excessive three sacks final week, all within the fourth quarter. … The Titans performed a season-excessive 10 rookies in opposition to Miami.

FANTASY TIP: Henry has run for 2 TDs in three straight video games. That’s the longest lively streak within the NFL and tied for the longest streak of his profession. He additionally tied Jim Brown with 23 video games with two or extra dashing TDs for fifth most by a participant in his first eight seasons.

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