Houston Texans News: October 8, 2020

Your one-stop shop for Houston Texans, local sports, and news from around the league for Thursday, October 8, 2020.

By Jeremy Brener@JeremyBrener Oct 8, 2020, 6:00am CDT

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Houston Texans News

J.J. Watt excited to win fans back after firing of Bill O’Brien (Houston Chronicle)

Report: Bill O’Brien bickered with Texans’ JJ Watt before firing (Houston Chronicle)

Easterby to be Texans acting GM; search starts after ‘20 (NFL.com)

Watt has no ‘ill will’ toward fired Texans coach O’Brien (NFL.com)

Mahomes, other players react to latest COVID-19 news (NFL.com)

Frelund: Bills strong contenders, Buccaneers pretenders (NFL.com)

WAS benches Haskins; Allen to start with Smith backup (NFL.com)

Two Titans players test positive; return to facility on hold (NFL.com)

Top 5 DPOY candidates at quarter mark: Donald ranks 4th (NFL.com)

Jeremiah: Burrow leads top 25 rookies at quarter mark (NFL.com)

Patriots CB Stephon Gilmore tests positive for COVID-19 (NFL.com)

Houston & Collegiate Sports

Bullpen falters in 9-7 loss to Oakland in ALDS Game 3 (Crawfish Boxes)

Houston Dynamo put in great team performance in win over FC Dallas (Dynamo Theory)