There are very few more exciting situations in the NFL than Monday Night Football. It's just that this week is a bit later Monday Night Football than any of us are accustomed to, that's all. Let's dive into the numbers for this matchup with the 4-2 Seattle Seahawks.
- 2 - The Seahawks have two losses on the year, ironically, both of them have come at home at venerable Lumen Field.
- 8 - Under head coach Mike Macdonald, the Seahawks have lost a whopping eight times at home in just 12 games. The Seahawks are 4-8 at home under Macdonald.
- 0 - On the other hand, the Texans have not won at Seattle in the two previous meetings.
- 1 - The Texans have one win against the Seahawks in four tries. The Texans won a 2009 home game against the Seahawks, but lost in 2005, 2013, 2017 and 2021.
- 41.5 - In those two matchups in Seattle, the Texans allowed an average of over 41 points. The first one in 2005 was a 32-point blowout, while the trip to Seattle in 2017 was one of the greatest regular season football games I've ever seen…yet a 41-38 loss to the homestanding Seahawks.
- 406.6 - Over the last nine quarters, the Texans offense has averaged over 400 yards per game. Projected per quarter average over the nine quarters of play comes out to an offensive number that speaks to the improvement offensively lately.
- .500 - The Texans are 4-4 after the bye week over the last eight years. Last year, the Texans came out of the bye week and beat Miami 20-12 to get to a .500 record after bye weeks since 2017.
- 9:00 CST - On Monday night the Texans will play the second latest game in the history of the franchise, kicking off at 9:00 PM CST. The only later game was the win over the artist formerly known as the San Diego Chargers in the opener of 2013.
- 4 - Seattle QB Sam Darnold will start on Monday night against the Texans for the fourth time. Each start came with a different team.
- 3 - Darnold, Kerry Collins and former Texan Ryan Fitzpatrick are the three QBs that also started against the Texans with four different teams. Fitzpatrick actually beat the Texans in 2005 with a fifth team, but he didn't start that game, so it doesn't count as a fifth team.
- 2 - Darnold has a 106.2 passer rating with 738 yards and six touchdowns in the first three starts against the Texans. As a member of the Jets in 2018, he was nudged out of a win by a late Texans comeback, but with Carolina in 2021 and Minnesota in 2024, Darnold was magnificent in those two wins.
- 573 - The last time that C.J. Stroud played a full game alongside Jaxon Smith-Njigba as teammates at Ohio State, Stroud threw for a Rose Bowl record 573 yards against Utah.
- 347 - The last time that Jaxon Smith-Njigba played a full game alongside C.J. Stroud as teammates at Ohio State, JSN had 15 receptions for a Rose Bowl record 347 yards against Utah.
- 1 - They'll meet for the first time since entering the league together back in 2023.
- Okay, that'll do it for this week. Tough one on Monday night, no question, but it should be a heck of a matchup late night out in Seattle.
