Houston Texans: Three key starting players that are trending downward

Which starting players are trending down for the Houston Texans through five weeks? It’s time to take a look at three that need to step things up.

The Houston Texans have amazingly been able to climb back toward a .500 record after an abysmal 0-3 start to the 2018 season.  Even though these past two wins didn’t necessarily have the most finesse to them, I’ll still take the W’s because at the end of the day that’s what’s most important.

These two past wins have gone the distance with the team going into overtime which shouldn’t have been the case.  Indianapolis Colts’ head coach Frank Reich gifted the Houston Texans their first win of the season and in nine games dating back to the 2017 season by deciding to make a play call for a short pass on 4th down in overtime in their own territory which sealed up the win for the Houston Texans after Ka’imi Fairbairn kicked his way to a Houston Texans’ win.

It was also a similar situation with the Dallas Cowboys last Sunday where Jason Garrett decided to punt on 4th down in overtime, knowing that there was going to be a strong chance that his team wouldn’t get the ball back.

And that certainly was the case — an obviously hobbled Deshaun Watson was still able to march his team downfield with a series of short passes.  Most notably, he got the help of a 49-yard catch by DeAndre Hopkins — obviously the NFL play of the year with series of spin moves to juke defenders — to get the Houston Texans within field goal range for Fairbairn to kick yet another high-pressure field goal to win the game.

So there you have it, the Houston Texans are 2-3 on the season and the majority of the starters did their job to help this team be successful but which haven’t been as of late?

Through five weeks of football, let’s take a look at the starters that continue to under-perform and are trending downward as a result.

I’ve got THREE of them so it’s time to delve into this.