{"id":32726,"date":"2025-11-03T04:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/32726\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T04:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:42:20","slug":"texans-qb-c-j-stroud-suffers-concussion-exits-early-in-loss-to-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/32726\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans QB C.J. Stroud suffers concussion, exits early in loss to Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texans QB was tended to on the field by the team&#8217;s medical staff as teammates surrounded him. He was escorted to the blue medical tent before going to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Stroud was ruled out as the second half began after initially being deemed questionable to return upon his early second-quarter exit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, we lost our starting quarterback because of the play,&#8221; Ryans said. &#8220;Anytime you lose your starting quarterback, it&#8217;s tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/davis-mills\/\" title=\"Davis Mills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Mills<\/a> entered the game for Stroud with 13:30 remaining in the first half and with the Texans holding a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Stroud was 6-for-10 passing for 79 yards at the time of his exit. Mills finished 17-of-30 passing for 137 yards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought Davis battled, tried to do a good job there, he battled,&#8221; Ryans said, &#8220;but it just didn&#8217;t do well offensively once we lost C.J.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Houston (3-5) hosts the Jaguars next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texans QB was tended to on the field by the team&#8217;s medical staff as teammates surrounded him.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9952,9955,21034,56,58,57,79,20028,223,9953,9954],"class_list":["post-32726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-c-j-stroud","tag-davis-mills","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-texans","tag-kris-abrams-draine","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-regular-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32726","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=32726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}