Again, Keenan Allen is not a position group, so he didn’t win this week. Casey Hayward is also not a position group, so he doesn’t get the honor either. Instead, this linebacker room took some strides since Week 1. Denzel Perryman and Thomas Davis look fantastic against the run, though they do struggle a bit against the pass.
The tone was set from the beginning and it did not change throughout the game. Perryman and Davis were not going to allow Houston to run the ball. Houston took on that challenge and unfortunately passed all over a defense that looked to be too worried about the run game.