{"id":388049,"date":"2026-07-27T19:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388049\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:20:16","slug":"texans-qb-c-j-stroud-gives-back-to-houston-as-part-of-backpack-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388049\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans QB C.J. Stroud gives back to Houston as part of backpack event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 27, 2026, 12:35 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">C.J. Stroud is giving back to the city of Houston ahead of training camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a data-autotag=\"4fdb1a06-1d90-42ff-b7f7-5268ecaf7955\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Houston Texans<\/a>&#8216; Pro Bowl quarterback recently gave away 250 backpacks, free haircuts and physicals to students getting ready to return to school as part of the second annual \u201cBack to School Backpack Blitz.&#8221; Stroud, who enters his fourth season with the Texans, was part of the group that attended the event at the South Side YMCA Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The event his co-sponsored by several organizations in the Greater-Houston area, including the YMCA, CJ Stroud Foundation, Harris County District Attorney\u2019s Office, Trill Burgers, Active Athlete 88 and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As part of the C.J. Stroud Foundation, kids with experience in the foster-care system or had parents in the prison\u00a0system were invited to the event. Every kid who wanted a fresh haircut was granted the opportunity thanks to barbers on site. The kids were also greeted with free Trill Burgers, courtesty of Houston rapper Bun B.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here&#8217;s several photos from the event.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Texans begin training camp on July 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 27, 2026, 12:35 p.m. CT C.J. Stroud is giving back to the city of Houston ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,56,58,57,107984,9268,9269,44,18796,5000,3793,2518,4588,44726,1593,1576,33183,44728,2619,44725,44729,44724,44730,44727,184,41,46,216,36],"class_list":["post-388049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-accessfree","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-sourcetexans-wire","tag-sstssportsnfltexans","tag-sstsntexans","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbreaking-news-social","tag-tagc-j-stroud","tag-tagcharity-philanthropy","tag-taghouston","tag-taghouston-texans","tag-tagmadden-nfl","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-draft","tag-tagnfl-films","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagnfl-junkies","tag-tagnfl-mvp","tag-tagnfl-overreactions","tag-tagnfl-playoffs","tag-tagnfl-scouting-combine","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tx","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388049","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=388049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}