Colts at Texans
Indianapolis Colts (7–4) at Houston Texans (4–7)
The Colts are coming off a rough loss at home to the Titans to travel to take on the Texans after their coach firing victory over the Lions on Thanksgiving. The big take away from these two teams is that they’re both going to be missing some key pieces this week. The Colts have had both the offensive and defensive lines seriously gutted from injury/COVID and that showed against the Titans. The Texans are going to be without big play threat Will Fuller for the remainder of the year. This game is going to be extremely important to the Colts if they plan on trying to get back to the top of this division.
Fantasy Impact
This game, like all Colts games this year, is not exactly a puzzle to figure out for fantasy. Starting with the home team, you’re starting Deshaun Watson and Brandin Cooks. Both of these guys have been solid for fantasy and I really don’t know how to go away from them, even in a tough matchup. I don’t think I’m going to risk my fantasy season on anyone else in this game, except maybe Duke Johnson if you’re in a pinch. I don’t know that he’ll be great here (even if the Colts line is missing key pieces this week, Duke’s skillset doesn’t exactly mesh with up the gut runs) but a healthy running back seeing feature back workload is nothing to sneeze at.
With the Colts, it’s nobody. As they were chasing there were some lofty target totals but Rivers was not able to connect on a ton of them. T.Y. Hilton and Nyheim Hines had the decent fantasy days, but neither have been consistent enough for me to trust going forward. This is a very good team, however, the spread nature of the offense combined with the limitations of late stage Phillip Rivers means that there’s rarely fantasy production to target with the Colts. The running backs have a hard to predict, hot hand committee going and even then there’s risk of Trey Burton or Jacoby Brissett coming in to take goal line snaps. The pass catchers are all competing with 10 other guys every week and, again, Rivers isn’t efficient enough to make them reliable fantasy options with limited volume.
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