00:00Meanwhile, on the flip side, the Houston Texans will be without their star wide receiver,
00:05Nico Collins, who was ruled out on Sunday, as Collins is certainly the guy that makes
00:10everything go for Houston.
00:11In fact, C.J. Stroud, before the season, said having Nico Collins back for a full season,
00:16that is going to be a piece that's going to lift us up here, and here we are again without
00:21him.
00:21Now, obviously, Houston's offense probably good enough to hang in a game with the Bengals,
00:28but there are very few players, Joe, that I think make that kind of impact, like Nico
00:32Collins does on his team with Houston, and now it looks like an injury during the week
00:37is going to cost him today.
00:40Yeah, it's unfortunate.
00:42Nico Collins is an extraordinary talent and somebody that the offense really needs in Houston
00:47to be on the field, because when he's not, it's not quite the same offense.
00:51Also, you factor in that Jaden Higgins isn't there for the whole year, too, so they're missing
00:55their number two wide receiver.
00:56So now you're pivoting down to what a different look at this offense is going to be.
00:59I have to imagine a lot of David Montgomery potentially in this game, too, or handing
01:02the ball off quite a bit to him.
01:04Xavier Hutchinson's going to work in this one.
01:06I think Dalton Schultz's role could be expanded, too.
01:08That's another guy, when you've seen injuries in the past, you've seen C.J.
01:12Stroud kind of look for the safety blanket that is Dalton Schultz.
01:15So I would look for some props on him today, too, some touchdown equity that he brings to
01:19this game.
01:19And I also would not dismiss Jalen Knoll, a very exciting playmaker, a second year player
01:25last year, didn't play too much, plays out of the slot, too.
01:29So you could see Jalen Knoll's role expanded, too.
01:31And that's the guy that I think has the playmaking ability that they're going to lack today in
01:35that offense going in.
01:36So look for him maybe to make a big splash play or two.
01:39I think that's an interesting piece.
01:40So really, we don't have any answers to this or we'll find out as the test kind of goes
01:45on.
01:45But Schultz, I think, is that one thing that you can probably count on being expanded with
01:50the injury to Nico Collins today.
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