{"id":263286,"date":"2026-09-18T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/texans-expected-to-be-without-nico-collins-in-week-2\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:40:08","slug":"texans-expected-to-be-without-nico-collins-in-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/texans-expected-to-be-without-nico-collins-in-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans expected to be without Nico Collins in Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Despite allowing 36 points in Week 1, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/houston_texans\/36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Texans<\/a> had a lot to look forward to heading into Week 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The offense put up 31 points and a big reason for that was the steady and consistent connection between quarterback C.J. Stroud and star wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/nico_collins\/647408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nico Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Houston got bad news about Collins, though, as it seems he won&#8217;t be able to take the field in Week 2.<\/p>\n<h2>Nico Collins is not expected to play<\/h2>\n<p>According to Texans insider Aaron Wilson, Collins did not participate in practice Friday, and he is expected to be out of action on Sunday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati_bengals\/33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Collins reportedly suffered a Grade 1 hamstring strain during Wednesday&#8217;s practice, and it appears that will now likely cause him to miss at least one game if not more.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/texans_expected_to_be_without_nico_collins_in_week_2\/s1_13132_44320039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite allowing 36 points in Week 1, the Houston Texans had a lot to look forward to heading into Week 2.\u00a0 The offense put up 31 points and a big reason for that was the steady and consistent connection between quarterback C.J. Stroud and star wide receiver Nico Collins. Houston got bad news about Collins, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}