{"id":223671,"date":"2025-10-18T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223671\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:50:09","slug":"texans-christian-kirk-out-vs-seahawks-with-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223671\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans’ Christian Kirk out vs. Seahawks with hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DJ Bien-AimeOct 19, 2025, 08:21 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>DJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN in July of 2022 after covering the New York Jets for the New York Daily News. He’s a former athlete who finished his college career at Louisville. You can catch DJ on ESPN Radio on his show “Talkin’ Texans.”<\/p>\n

HOUSTON — Texans<\/a> wideout Christian Kirk<\/a> has been ruled out against the Seattle Seahawks<\/a> on “Monday Night Football” with a strained hamstring.<\/p>\n

Kirk suffered the injury during practice this week. The starting slot receiver also missed games in Week 1 and Week 2 — both losses — with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

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Kirk returned against the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> — his former team — in Week 3 and had three receptions for 25 yards. Overall, he has 10 catches for 109 receiving yards with no touchdowns this season.<\/p>\n

Rookie wideout Jaylin Noel<\/a>, who has five catches for 22 yards and a touchdown this season, is expected to replace Kirk in the slot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ Bien-AimeOct 19, 2025, 08:21 AM CloseDJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-223671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}