{"id":11521,"date":"2025-10-20T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11521\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:04:18","slug":"two-must-know-storylines-for-monday-night-football-doubleheader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11521\/","title":{"rendered":"Two must-know storylines for &#8216;Monday Night Football&#8217; doubleheader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) Texans offense ready to lift off in Seattle?<\/p>\n<p>In the last two wins for the Texans, third-year quarterback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/c-j-stroud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">C.J. Stroud<\/a> appears to be back to his stardom form in Nick Caley&#8217;s offense. The 2023 AP Offensive Rookie of the Year has thrown for six touchdowns, 477 passing yards and zero interceptions in Houston&#8217;s last two games. This season, Stroud is completing a career-high 70.8 percent of his passes, and has found his No. 1 receiver in <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/nico-collins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nico Collins<\/a> in the last couple of weeks. Collins, who leads the Texans with 22 catches, 312 receiving yards and three receiving TDs, has recorded at least 50-plus receiving yards in the last four games. Unfortunately for the Texans, they&#8217;ll be without veteran wideout <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/christian-kirk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Kirk<\/a> in Seattle due to a hamstring injury. Stroud could lean more on Collins on Monday night. Since Stroud&#8217;s arrival to Houston in 2023, Collins has averaged 81.7 receiving yards, which ranks sixth-most. Stroud and Co. will have a tough task ahead of them against Seattle&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1) Texans offense ready to lift off in Seattle? In the last two wins for the Texans, third-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9952,9955,9722,56,58,57,79,9958,223,9957,9953,9954,9956,7001],"class_list":{"0":"post-11521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-c-j-stroud","10":"tag-game-preview","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-houston-texans","15":"tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nico-collins","18":"tag-no-minute","19":"tag-regular-season","20":"tag-sam-darnold","21":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}