Tonight’s primetime game features a battle between two hyped young stars at the quarterback position, and a contest between two teams on the rise in their respective conferences. One is hoping to be truly relevant for the first time in many years; the other is hoping to become one of the AFC’s dominant players.
Whether that translates to a quality football game remains to be seen, but there’s plenty of intrigue here between the Chicago Bears and the Houston Texans. The Texans have C.J. Stroud, already one of the league’s better young quarterbacks, and the kind of top-to-bottom talent that suggests they should be able to run the AFC South for years to come if all goes well.