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If things weren’t bad enough for the 1-11-1 Houston Texans, they might get worse in Week 15. According to KRIV-TV Sports Director Mark Berman, Texans rookie RB Dameon Pierce suffered a high ankle sprain in the loss to the Dallas Cowboys in Week 14. Berman reports that Pierce could miss up to three games with the injury, which would include Houston’s upcoming tilt with the Chiefs.
Pierce has been the lone bright spot in a bleak season for Houston. The rookie out of Florida has 250 touches for 1,000 scrimmage yards and five total touchdowns for the Texans on the year. He’s the only player with over 1,000 scrimmage yards on the team and leads them in total touchdowns.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Texans HC Lovie Smith gave the following update on Pierce.
“He has an ankle injury that kept him out,” Smith said, via Texans Wire. “He didn’t finish the game. That’s always concerning when a player didn’t finish the game. It will take an awful lot for him not to play, but if it’s an injury, of course it can. Hopefully it’s short-term. We’ll see.”
We’ll get official confirmation from Houston on Pierce’s status on Wednesday when both the Chiefs and Texans return to practice.
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KC Laboratory - Biggest takeaways from Chiefs’ turbulent win vs. Broncos:
KCSN’s Kent Swanson, Craig Stout, and Matt Lane break down the Kansas City Chiefs' 34-28 victory over the Denver Broncos and give their biggest takeaways from the game.
NFL Futures Odds:
With the NFL’s regular season soon coming to its close, here’s an update on where Chiefs players stand in future betting odds for end-of-season awards via our friends at Draft Kings Sportsbook:
MVP: 2. Patrick Mahomes (+200)
OPOTY: 4. Patrick Mahomes (+1100) & 6. Travis Kelce (+2800)
DPOTY: 3. Chris Jones (+3000)
OROTY: 7. Isiah Pacheco (+3000)
DROTY: T-7. George Karlaftis (+10000)
KCSN Daily:
KCSN’s BJ Kissel catches up with The Athletic's Nate Taylor to ask him his 5 Burning Questions following the Kansas City Chiefs' lackluster performance vs. the Denver Broncos.
Quotable:
“Yeah, listen, I’ve been blessed to be with good organizations first off. I want to make sure people understand that because it’s not one person it’s all of us kind of pulling together and I think that’s kind of the strength of the places that I’ve been lucky enough to be at and surely here is we’re all kind of pulling in the same direction there’s not a lot of interference going on. In order to do this, you’ve got to have the players, you’ve got to have the people that are bringing in the players and then you’ve got to have the coaching staff. And it all starts with the owner and how he presents things to you and allows you to do certain things. But those other pieces, too, become very important that there has to be a balance there where those people get along — not that they’re necessarily going out at night and partying — that they actually work well together, and I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of that.” - Andy Reid on eight consecutive 10-win seasons with the Chiefs
“Yeah, you know what you're seeing just around the league is some of these long balls that we either had the holding on or it hit us in the facemask, those type of things. Defending those is tough, even for the best of the best. And so, I kind of put those aside and just keep working on those after practice and during practice. We can get some extra throws with the quarterbacks after practice. And then during practice, let's have those scripted in so they have an opportunity to track them. You can't get enough of them. Now the other stuff we've got the — I'm seeing improvement – the breaks on the ball, the learning the indicators on the break on the ball. That's one of the bigger struggles for a young guy, but I'm seeing guys get better at that. And that means that they're studying more and understanding some of the fundamentals of tape of playing the receiver position which becomes important playing either corner or safety.” - Andy Reid on growing pains with rookies in the secondary
Quick Hits:
From the JuJu Foundation: Chiefs WR JuJu Smith-Schuster gave back to the Kansas City community recently. His foundation shared images of him paying off nearly $10K in layaway gifts at Burlington in Kansas City.
From No. 15: Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes paid tribute to former Texas Tech HC Mike Leach on Tuesday. Leach died at 61 years old on Monday after he was hospitalized due to heart complications.
From Week 14: New Chiefs DT Brandon Williams had a great reaction to Patrick Mahomes’ touchdown toss to Jerick McKinnon.
Important dates ahead:
Sunday, Dec. 18 at Noon CT - Week 15: Chiefs vs. Texans - NRG Stadium - Houston, Texas
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