{"id":133121,"date":"2025-09-04T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133121\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:03:07","slug":"sources-texans-kirk-likely-out-week-1-potentially-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133121\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources &#8212; Texans&#8217; Kirk likely out Week 1, potentially longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"595690b3-2161-4913-a7a7-814af2fd2621\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-texans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans<\/a> receiver <a data-player-guid=\"0c22d637-c0d7-6bac-7333-dc3a992bdc0d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3895856\/christian-kirk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Kirk<\/a> has a strained hamstring that is expected to sideline him for at least Sunday&#8217;s regular-season opener against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2e1473b2-e269-fd7a-1137-c1edacb85986\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lar\/los-angeles-rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rams<\/a> in Los Angeles and possibly longer, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>One source estimated it to be a two-week injury for Kirk but that the Texans will be &#8220;cautious&#8221; with him.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk sat out practice for Houston on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Houston acquired Kirk via trade with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ca6fb778-cbf6-d9a3-3e93-01230335fcab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/jax\/jacksonville-jaguars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> in March. He was slated to start for the Texans alongside <a data-player-guid=\"338aa0be-bd63-1a24-1929-796af121cefb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4258173\/nico-collins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nico Collins<\/a>, helping a receiving unit that is unlikely to have <a data-player-guid=\"dd36357c-436b-f059-d957-ddbb12cf33ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4366031\/tank-dell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tank Dell<\/a> (knee surgeries) this season. Houston did take former Iowa State teammates <a data-player-guid=\"41e35107-de50-3ba5-86e5-ea1799fc8408\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4877706\/jayden-higgins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayden Higgins<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"8e9a6518-91a4-3d30-ae1f-1412145a5184\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4586312\/jaylin-noel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylin Noel<\/a> in April&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Texans receiver Christian Kirk has a strained hamstring that is expected to sideline him for at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-133121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}