The Houston Texans finished up their long business trip to Detroit on Saturday afternoon by disposing of the Detroit Lions (well, the backups on the Lions, at least) by a final score of 24-7. Truth be told, we probably would have learned more about how these two teams will fare this season by watching the joint practice they conducted on Thursday, where the starters for each team got in two hours of work with each other.
Unfortunately, they don’t televise those practices. They do televise the preseason games, and while most of the players on each side in Saturday’s game will wind up getting their walking papers by Tuesday afternoon — the deadline for NFL teams to get their rosters to the 53 man limit — there were definitely some winners and losers. Here are four of each:
WINNERS
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