—Each team established the run all the way to a 10-10 tie at halftime. Houston ran the ball 14 times on first down for 57 yards and 2 times on 2nd and 10+ for 2 yards. There’s one caveat. One of those carries went for 33 yards. If you scrub the outlier we’re left with 13 carries for 24 yards, or 1.84 yards a carry. Six of these runs went for zero yards or less. Great stuff.
The Texans did it all on first down. They established the run on the first play of the game, inside zone, Tytus Howard tackles Denico Autry fighting inside and trying to make a tackle.