Texans defensive end Will Anderson Jr., rookie running back Woody Marks and cornerback Kamari Lassiter did not practice on Wednesday.
Coach DeMeco Ryans indicated that all three will play in Sunday’s game against the Chiefs.
“They’ll all be fine. We’ll see how the week goes,” Ryans said, via a transcript from the team.
Marks injured his foot in Sunday’s win over the Colts. He played 41 of 76 snaps but rushed for 64 yards on 19 carries.
Nick Chubb is the backup to Marks.
Anderson (chest/shoulder) missed one practice last week before playing 34 of 54 snaps against the Colts.
Lassiter played the entire game against the Colts despite his foot injury, and he totaled three tackles, a tackle for loss and a quarterback hit.
Right tackle Trent Brown (hand), defensive tackle Tim Settle Jr. (foot), defensive end Denico Autry (knee) and linebacker Jamal Hill (hamstring) also didn’t practice on Wednesday.
Middle linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair (knee) was limited.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is listed with a new issue on Wednesday’s injury report but it did not affect his practice time.
Kansas City listed Mahomes as a full participant in the day’s session with a knee injury.
Last week, Mahomes was listed as a full participant on all three reports with a groin issue.
Mahomes has completed 64.6 percent of his passes for 3,238 yards with 22 touchdowns and seven interceptions so far in 2025. He’s also rushed for 348 yards with four TDs.
As noted by head coach Andy Reid earlier in the day, cornerback Christian Roland-Wallace, guard Trey Smith (ankle), and right tackle Jawaan Taylor (triceps/knee) all did not participate on Wednesday.
Safety Bryan Cook (ankle), tight end Noah Gray (concussion/shoulder), safety Jaden Hicks (shoulder), defensive end George Karlaftis (thumb), running back Isiah Pacheco (knee), receiver Nikko Remigio (shoulder), and receiver Rashee Rice (hamstring) were all full.
The Texans made a couple of additions to their 53-man roster on Wednesday.
The team announced that they have signed cornerback Ameer Speed and defensive end Solomon Byrd. Both players were on their practice squad prior to Wednesday’s move.
Speed signed to the practice squad in late November and he was elevated to play in last Sunday’s win over the Colts. Speed had one tackle against the team he played eight games for during the 2023 season. He has also played for the Bears and Patriots.
Byrd appeared in one game for the Texans last season. He had two tackles and a quarterback hit in that contest.
The NFL has many officiating issues, even if it chooses to ignore most of them.
Here’s one that could be easily fixed.
It happens when an extra point or a field goal involves the ball going over the uprights. Instant replay, by rule, is not available. The officials have to decide whether, when the ball passed over the top of the structure, it was within the inside edge of the yellow pole.
On Sunday, a fourth-quarter extra point attempt by the Texans kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn appeared to not pass within the imaginary line extending above the uprights. The one-point difference became critical, making the score 20-13 when it arguably should have been 19-13. The Colts, who lost 20-16, could have tied the game with a late field goal, if that point had not been awarded to the Texans.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Although making the uprights even higher than they are poses engineering and aesthetic challenges, there are other solutions.
One, put a wireless camera with a wide-angle lens at the top or each upright. With the proliferation of affordable camera technology, it would be cheap and easy to have a way to see where the ball was when it passed over the camera.
Two, install a thin beam atop each upright that would be activated before every kick. It would create a simulated extension of the apparatus, allowing replay review to decide whether the ball passes inside, outside, or through the yellow ray of light.
Third, use the existing array of Hawkeye cameras in the same way it’s currently employed (albeit surprisingly rarely) for virtual measurements. Multiple readers from other side of the Atlantic Ocean have pointed out that hurling has developed a system for doing exactly what the NFL needs — a way to triangulate the location of the ball in order to determine whether the kick was, or wasn’t, successful.
There’s a way to fix the problem that reared its head on Sunday. With so much technology available, the old-school, no-tech approach needs to be abandoned, whenever and wherever possible.
Laken Tomlinson opened the season as the starting left guard for the Texans, but he lost that job and he’s now lost his spot on the roster.
The Texans announced that they have waived Tomlinson on Tuesday. They did not make a corresponding addition to their 53-man roster.
Tomlinson signed a one-year deal with the Texans as a free agent this offseason. He started seven of the first eight games of the season, but was replaced by Jarrett Patterson in Week 10 and he has been inactive for the team’s last two games.
Juice Scruggs and Jarrett Kingston remain on the depth chart as reserves on the interior of the line.
