The Texans sorely missed WR DeAndre Hopkins
The Texans made the stunning decision to trade DeAndre Hopkins earlier this year and the team looked to have no firm answers for how to replace him in Week 1 versus the Chiefs. If the departure of Hopkins leads to a potential regression of QB Deshaun Watson, the Texans will be in big, big trouble. And with no early draft assets (those belong to Miami) to replace him mid-season or ahead of the trade deadline, the Texans will struggle to pivot and compose themselves on the fly.
The Texans have a lot of work to do based on Week 1. But for Dolphins fans, the hope is that the adjustments take a while to get ironed out — and that the team is in too big of a hole to climb out of by the time they get the answers they’re looking for on the heels of a demoralizing defeat to open the season.