Team news: Houston Texans

The Houston Texans have activated WR Brandin Cooks from the reserve/COVID-19 list and is practicing Wednesday.

Nico Collins will enter as the Texans top receiving option but won’t be worth more than a dart throw against the run-funneling defense of the Los Angeles Chargers.

The Houston Texans have placed WR Brandin Cooks on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

He will need two consecutive negative tests prior to Sunday to play (if vaccinated).

With RB Rex Burkhead (hip) unable to play Week 15, Texans HC David Culley told reporters Wednesday that David Johnson and Royce Freeman will be the lead backs Week 15.

Johnson missed Week 14 because of COVID, so it is unknown how much if at all the virus changes his practice time ahead of Week 15. Johnson and Freeman are dart throw RBs this weekend.

Texans HC David Culley told reporters Friday that QB Davis Mills will start for Houston the remainder of the season.

Related Player: Tyrod Taylor

Things never worked out for Taylor as the starter, but is that a surprise? Mills will now get his second extended look as the Texans starter.

Texans QBs Davis Mills and Tyrod Taylor will split reps this week according to HC David Culley. No starter has been announced ahead of their game against the Seattle Seahawks.

Steer clear of both unless your Superflex/two-QB league team is desperate.

There isn’t a quarterback projected to be worthy of a pick like the Texans will have in the first round if they don't trade down, so there’s a chance Davis Mills will be competing to start in 2022. If he is given the chance to start again this season, it seems unlikely things turn around given the personnel surrounding him.

Related players: Tyrod Taylor

The Texans are projected to have a top-five pick in the 2022 draft. Taylor wasn't good against the Colts before getting hurt in Week 13 with a wrist injury. The Texans would be better off giving Mills starts to finish the season to see if he has any chance to be the future at the position.

Texans QB Tyrod Taylor is considered week-to-week with his wrist injury, sources say, and Davis Mills is expected to start.

Mills will get another chance to show what he can do for the Texans, who don't seem to have any kind of future plan for the QB position. Taylor isn't the long-term answer and Deshaun Watson wants to be traded. The last time we saw Mills was against the Rams, when he threw for over 300 yards and 2 TDs in a loss, but then lost his job to Taylor.