Four starters will not dress for the Texans' third preseason game at Denver: Jadeveon Clowney, Arian Foster, Chris Myers, and Johnathan Joseph. J.J. Watt, Andre Johnson, and Brian Cushing are noticeabley absent from the list of inactives, but whether or not they will play will be a gametime decision.
After three days of joint practices with the Broncos, head coach Bill O'Brien likely wants to rest his starters for Week 1 of the regular season against Washington. Jadeveon Clowey, who missed the end of Wednesday and all of Thursday's practice, was not expected to not play following a hit late in Wednesday's drills. Veteran center Chris Myers did not practice all week in Denver with an undisclosed issue that O'Brien referred to as "nothing serious."
Here is the complete list of players not dressing for Saturday's game against the Broncos:
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18 WR Anthony McClung
23 RB Arian Foster
24 CB Johnathan Joseph
31 FS Shiloh Keo
39 CB Lonnie Ballentine
51 OLB Paul Hazel
55 C Chris Myers
68 G/C Conor Boffeli
73 T Will Yeatman
77 G David Quessenberry
90 OLB Jadeveon Clowney
The starting lineup changes are as follows:
-Whitney Mercilus will start for Clowney
-A.J. Bouye will start for Joseph
-Jonathan Grimes will start for Foster
-James Ferentz will start for Myers
