The offense may be sputtering on the field, but on the stat sheet the passing game is humming like a Rolls-Royce. Call it stat-padding, call it late-game heroics, call it the C.J. Stroud effect, but whatever you do, don’t dismiss the improvement in the passing game.
Through two games, Houston Texans rookie QB C.J. Stroud has gone 58/91 (63.7%) for two touchdowns and no interceptions. While the team is 0-2 and the games were not close, that stat line is hard to gripe about. No interceptions through two games is as good of a consequence as one can ask for.