The Texans were without six players in Wednesday’s practice, five of them rehabbing injuries.
Offensive tackle Trent Brown (knee/wrist), defensive end Jadeveon Clowney (knee), wide receiver Nico Collins (hamstring), linebacker Jake Hummel (groin), offensive guard Ed Ingram (groin) and tight end Dalton Schultz (rest) did not practice.
Collins injured his hamstring in practice last week and missed the Week 2 loss to the Bengals.
Defensive end Will Anderson Jr. (rest), defensive end Logan Hall (knee) and safety M.J. Stewart (knee) were limited.
Safety Reed Blankenship (thumb) and linebacker Wade Woodaz (thumb) were full participants.
The Colts will not have receiver Alec Pierce for at least the next four games.
Via multiple reporters, head coach Shane Steichen told reporters in his Wednesday press conference that Pierce is being placed on injured reserve after aggravating the heel he had surgically repaired during the offseason in Sunday night’s loss to the Chiefs.
For now, Pierce will try to rehab the injury without undergoing another procedure. But there is no current timeline for his return.
Steichen added that Pierce hit his benchmarks for recovery and the team’s medical staff had cleared him to play.
“We never would have put him on the field if we didn’t feel good about it and he didn’t feel good about it,” Steichen said, via Joel A. Erickson of the Indianapolis Star.
Pierce, who signed a four-year, $114 million deal with the Colts in March, caught four passes for 61 yards in the season opener before catching an 11-yard pass on Sunday night before departing the game.
Pierce registered his first 1,000-yard season last year. He led the league in yards per reception in both 2024 and 2025.
In March, linebacker Jonathan Owens left the Bears in free agency for the Colts. Before Owens and his wife, gymnast Simone Biles, left Chicago, they found themselves the victims of a robbery.
In a video posted Tuesday on social media, Biles said that “three men in masks came to our house and stole my Porsche” before they moved out of Chicago.
The car was recovered.
It’s not clear when the theft occurred. And while some have interpreted Biles’s quotes to mean that their home was invaded, that’s not entirely clear from her video.
Either way, it makes Owens the latest known NFL victim of a theft at his home.
Owens, 31, has played for the Cardinals, Texans, Packers, Bears, and Colts. He has appeared in 84 regular-season games with 35 starts.
Based on the way the respective teams played in Week 1, many expected Sunday night’s game between the Colts and Chiefs to be a snoozer. Instead, it was an overtime thriller.
The game attracted 24.3 million viewers on average for NBC and Peacock.
The audience, which peaked at 27.4 million between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. ET, made it the most-watched Week 2 Sunday night game since 2015.
It was also the fourth highest figure for an overtime game in 21 seasons of Sunday Night Football on NBC. In that span, 22 Sunday night games have gone to overtime.
The Sunday night slate continues in five days, with the Broncos hosting the Rams.
Adam Vinatieri isn’t in the NFL record book for the longest field goal, but he now is the Guinness World Record-holder for the highest field goal.
The Hall of Fame kicker made a field goal from an altitude of 11,332 feet (3,434 meters) above sea level in the Swiss Alps on Tuesday.
Vinatieri’s record-setting kick took place at Jungfraujoch, known as the “Top of Europe,” on snow-covered ground with swirling winds. A Guinness World Records adjudicator was on hand to certify the achievement.
“Snow is simply part of my time with the Patriots,” Vinatieri said, via a team news release. “But kicking a field goal at 3,454 meters is something completely different from anything I’ve ever done. You feel the altitude with every breath you take. Your heart rate is different. Your rhythm is different. And no one can really tell you beforehand how it will affect the kick, because no one has done this before. The fact that we were able to set the record under these conditions makes me very proud.”
The event kicked off the Patriots’ countdown to their Nov. 15 game in Munich and celebrated Vinatieri’s legendary career.
He last kicked in the NFL in 2019, retiring as the NFL’s all-time leader with 599 field goals.
