{"id":411710,"date":"2026-01-16T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411710\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:16:07","slug":"texans-wr-collins-ruled-out-vs-patriots-with-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411710\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans WR Collins ruled out vs. Patriots with concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DJ Bien-AimeJan 16, 2026, 03:47 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 — Texans<\/a> Pro Bowl wideout Nico Collins<\/a> has been ruled out for Sunday’s divisional round playoff game at the New England Patriots<\/a> due to a concussion.<\/p>\n

Collins suffered the injury when he fell face-first after trying to catch a pass in the Texans’ 30-6 wild-card win over the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> on Monday. The impact of the fall caused Collins to immediately put both hands to his face.<\/p>\n

Houston’s medical staff took Collins to the tent. It didn’t take long before the three-time 1,000-yard receiver was carted to the locker room.<\/p>\n

Collins has been Houston’s unquestioned No. 1 playmaker, totaling 71 catches for 1,117 yards and 6 touchdowns on the season.<\/p>\n

Houston will rely on wideout Christian Kirk<\/a> to step up and build on his standout performance in the wild-card round. Kirk’s career-high 144 receiving yards helped fuel the Texans’ win and set a franchise postseason record, eclipsing Collins’ mark from last year’s wild-card win over the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ Bien-AimeJan 16, 2026, 03:47 PM ET CloseDJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-411710","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\/411710","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=411710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}