Brian Hoyer replaced his helmet with a ball cap on the sideline after scoring on the Texans opening drive in the Texans preseason opener against San Francisco. The plan will be a similar one for Mallett on Saturday.
“Brian, in that instance there, if we had gone three-and-out in the first series, he probably would have gone back in and played some more, but because we drove the ball down and scored, that was the plan if we did that,” O’Brien said after the Texans 23-10 win over the 49ers. “Next week, the plan will be the reverse of that.