Ben Solak joined ESPN in 2024 as a national NFL analyst. He previously covered the NFL at The Ringer, Bleeding Green Nation and The Draft Network.
Lamb tallies 17 catches: Number of catches for Cee Dee Lamb in the Cowboys' win over the Texans. There were only 11 players Sunday with 17 or more rushes. That's the incredible volume at which Lamb was just used. It's only the ninth game in NFL history in which a player had 17-plus catches. The Texans spent much of the game letting the Cowboys play Lamb in the slot and hunt nickel Jalen Pitre in space -- and then again with rookie Kamari Ramsey when the Texans were in dime. Lamb saw 42.1% of his targets on the day from the slot, which is the second-highest slot share he has had since Brian Schottenheimer took over as head coach last year. When Lamb was out wide, the Cowboys threw him hitches incessantly.
1: How many 0-4 teams have made the playoffs since the start of the 1990 season. The Texans will drive to become the second. To be fair, the Chargers, Titans, Bucs and Dolphins are also trying do this. The Texans' attempt just feels a little more legitimate. Houston has lost three of four games by one score, and all three of those losses have had a score change within the final two minutes. In the Texans' 34-30 loss to the Cowboys, Houston had a win probability as high as 78.5% with two minutes left in the fourth quarter.
16: How many times Jalen Hurts was blitzed in Sunday's loss to the Rams. That's the most blitzes the Eagles quarterback has seen since the 2024 season. Hurts had minus-9.3 total expected points added on blitzed dropbacks in this game -- the worst such game of his career by a comfortable margin.
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