A Week 2 road trip to Nashville is on tap for the Texans. Titans' head coach Mike Vrabel and a few players shared their thoughts on the Texans, as you can see below.
Titans head coach Mike Vrabel on QB Deshaun Watson: "He's got a strong arm, he's got the ability to keep plays alive. His pocket presence and his strength in the pocket – I think he's got great play strength for a quarterback. A couple of times, even in the game, when the rush is barreling down on him, he's really not even down. I think they're just kind of blowing the whistle because there's three guys on him. One's on his leg, one's on his hip, another one's around his shoulder and he's just kind of standing there. It's very impressive play strength."
LB Rashaan Evans on Watson: "He's a great athlete, but at the same time, if you know how to scheme against him, know that he's lethal with his legs, and if you can respect that I think you have a good chance of beating him."
DT Jurrell Casey on generating an interior rush: "It's going to be key for us up front to make sure we put as much pressure as we can up the middle, because if a quarterback can't step up, it helps a lot for our secondary."
Vrabel on WR Will Fuller, V: "I think you notice that he does have the ability to take the top off of it and get downfield, and Deshaun's willing to wait it out. The protection has been there, or was there, for them to be able to move the ball downfield and throw it and really stretch a defense 40 or 50 yards down the field. He was always willing to block while I was there. I always recognized his ability to block, his willingness to go in there and block. It'll be a difficult challenge, obviously. We're anticipating him being back."
CB Adoree Jackson on Fuller: "They've got a lot of weapons out there, offensively. They got him, they got 12 (Bruce Ellington), 10 (DeAndre Hopkins), the quarterback, running back, they got a lot of people out there that can do a lot of different things. They're offense is stacked and loaded with a lot of people."
RB Dion Lewis on the Texans defense: "They've got a great defense. A lot of talent up front. They generate a good pass rush. They got a new addition with Honey Badger in the secondary so they're really talented. We definitely have our work cut out for us. But at the same time, we're confident in what we can do."
The Houston Texans roster in photos.
DL Mario Addison, #56 (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
QB, Kyle Allen, #3
RB, Darius Anderson, #30
DB, Grayland Arnold, #35
TE, Antony Auclair, #83
DL, Ross Blacklock, #90
DL, Thomas Booker, #96
OL, Justin Britt, #68
DB, Terrence Brooks, #8
TE, Pharaoh Brown, #85
RB, Rex Burkhead, #28
WR, Jalen Camp, #17
OL, A.J. Cann, #60
LB, Blake Cashman, #53
DL, Maliek Collins, #97
WR, Nico Collins, #12
WR, Chris Conley, #18
WR, Brandin Cooks, #13
WR, Davion Davis, #14
LB, Tae Davis, #19
OL, Austin Deculus, #76
WR, Phillip Dorsett, #4
QB, Jeff Driskel, #6
DL, Michael Dwumfour, #98
WR, Drew Estrada, #81
K, Ka'imi Fairbairn, #7
DB, Jacobi Francis, #38
RB, Royce Freeman, #26
OL, Carson Green, #62
DL, Jonathan Greenard, #52
WR, DaeSean Hamilton, #5
OL, Kenyon Green, #59
DL, Rasheem Green (AP Photo/Daniel Kucin Jr.)
LB, Kamu Grugier-Hill, #51
LB, Christian Harris, #48
DL, Demone Harris, #94
WR, Damon Hazelton, #86
OL, Charlie Heck, #67
LB, Neville Hewitt, #43
QB, Kevin Hogan, #16 (AP Photo/Stew Milne)
OL, Tytus Howard, #71
DL, Jerry Hughes, #55 (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
FB, Andy Janovich, #41
An image from the Aug. 21, 2021 Houston Texans preseason game 2 against the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium. The Texans won 20-14.
WR, Johnny Johnson III, #89
P, Cameron Johnston, #11
TE, Brevin Jordan, #9
DB, Desmond King II, #25
LB, Christian Kirksey, #58
DL, Roy Lopez, #91
RB, Marlon Mack, #2
DB, Tristin McCollum, #39
OL, Justin McCray, #64
WR, John Metchie III, #88
QB, Davis Mills, #10
WR, Chris Moore, #15
DB, Jimmy Moreland, #22
OL, Jimmy Morrissey, #79
DB, Eric Murray, #23
DB, Steven Nelson (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
DB, Steven Nelson, #21
DL, Adedayo Odeleye, #75
OL, Cedric Ogbuehi, #77
RB, Dare Ogunbowale, #33
DL, Ogbonnia Okoronkwo, #45
DB, Jonathan Owens, #36
RB, Dameon Pierce, #31
LB, Kevin Pierre-Louis, #57
DB, Jalen Pitre, #42
FB, Paul Quessenberry, #45
OL, Scott Quessenberry, #54
TE, Teagan Quitoriano, #84
LB, Jalen Reeves-Maybin, #34 (AP Photo/Lon Horwedel)
DL, Derek Rivers, #95
OL, Max Scharping, #74
DB, Kendall Sheffield (AP Photo/Kevin Sabitus)
DB, Tremon Smith, #24
OL, Jordan Steckler, #70
DB, M.J. Stewart, #29
DB, Derek Stingley Jr., #24
DB, Tavierre Thomas, #37
OL, Laremy Tunsil, #78
LB, Garret Wallow, #32
WR, Connor Wedington (AP)
LS, Jon Weeks #46
DB, Isaac Yiadom, #20
