For the 47th time in the regular season, the Texans face the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday afternoon, this one in Indianapolis. Let's dive into the numbers for this post-Thanksgiving weekend matchup in Nap Town.
3 - The Texans have a three game winning streak over the Indianapolis Colts.
3 - The Texans also have a three game ROAD winning streak over the Colts. Davis Mills led the Texans to a 32-31 win over Indy in 2022, while C.J. Stroud was magnificent in two straight wins in 2023 and 2024. It's the longest winning streak AT Indy in franchise history.
964 - Colts star RB Jonathan Taylor has faced the Texans eight times and averages over 120 yards in those eight games. In total, he's run for nearly 1k against the Texans in half a season.
83 - Taylor has rushed for less than 83 yards against the Texans in just one game in his career, the opener in 2024.
188 - Even in one of the greatest Texans wins in the regular season, Taylor went off. On a Saturday night in Indy in the 2023 season finale, the star Colts RB ran for nearly 200 yards on 30 carries. He would've had 35 or more carries had he not injured his ankle in the third quarter.
6 - After sacking Bills QB Josh Allen two and a half times on Thursday night, DE Will Anderson Jr. tied Mario Williams with a sack in six consecutive games. Future HOFer J.J. Watt had a sack in seven consecutive games, but he did it over the course of two seasons. If Will can register one sack on Sunday, he'll be all alone at the top of the list.
458 - In the last three games that Nico Collins has faced the Indianapolis Colts, he racked up 22 receptions for 458 yards and two receiving TDs.
3 - Even though the Texans faced the Jets twice over the past two seasons, Nico Collins played a total of just three plays in those two games, missing the 2024 game completely. As such, this will be the first time that new Colts CB Sauce Gardner (formerly of the Jets) and Collins have faced one another for a significant number of snaps.
9 - Texans S Calen Bullock picked off Josh Allen twice in the Texans 23-19 win over the Bills. In just 24 starts in his career, Bullock has nine interceptions already.
14 - Texans CB Derek Stingley Jr. is the Texans' active career leader with 14 interceptions, just three behind…
17 - Johnathan Joseph is the career leader for the Texans with 17 interceptions.
0 - The Texans allowed zero sacks against the Buffalo Bills.
8 - The Texans sacked Allen a team record eight times. The Texans had never finished a game in franchise history 8 sacks/0 sacks allowed…until last Thursday night.
4 - After turning the ball over three times in the fourth quarter of a week three loss to the Jaguars, the Texans have turned it over just four times since. That's four in just eight games and five games with no turnovers. That'll be key on Sunday against a Colts squad that has turned it over 12 times over the same time frame.
Okay, it's time to hone in on the hated Colts. See you on Sunday from Indy! Go Texans!
