Aaand there’s a strip sack and the Texans recover. Allen could have better ball security, imo.
Samuel cooked the DB at the snap, by the way.
Allen fires deep to Curtis Samuel on third down and it looks like the Panthers are going to get a pass interference call for a first down. That helps.
Kyle Allen dumps it off to Christian McCaffrey and the Panthers pick up 18 yards, and just like that the poor kickoff return doesn’t matter anymore.
The Panthers will start on offense at their own 15 yard line after a poor kickoff return.