{"id":161572,"date":"2025-09-16T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/161572\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:04:07","slug":"texans-wr-christian-kirk-hamstring-to-play-against-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/161572\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans WR Christian Kirk (hamstring) to play against Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DJ Bien-AimeSep 16, 2025, 02:04 PM ET<\/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 — Coach DeMeco Ryans said Tuesday that Houston Texans<\/a> wideout Christian Kirk<\/a> is expected to return this week against the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kirk missed the first two games of the Texans season against the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

The Texans sit at 0-2 with a need for offensive help and hope Kirk can provide that. Through two games, the Texans have scored only two touchdowns and rank last in points per game (14).<\/p>\n

The pass protection hasn’t been great either. Quarterback C.J. Stroud<\/a> has been under pressure on 39% of his dropbacks, seventh-most among starting quarterbacks, according to Next Gen Stats.<\/p>\n

Stroud has thrown for only one touchdown in 395 passing yards. The hope is that Kirk’s return can help open up the offense to get Stroud going while taking attention off of Pro Bowl wideout Nico Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kirk’s first game of the season for Houston will be against his former team that signed him to a four-year, $72 million deal in 2022. In three seasons he had 2,274 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns for the Jaguars before they traded him to the Texans<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ Bien-AimeSep 16, 2025, 02:04 PM ET CloseDJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN…\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-161572","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\/161572","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=161572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161572\/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=161572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}