Why we took it
Nico Collins is out for a second straight week with the hamstring, and last Sunday showed exactly where those targets go. Schultz ran the third-most slot routes in the league that afternoon and finished 12-for-140 on 14 looks while Houston threw it 50 times and still scored six points. Xavier Hutchinson got nine targets and turned them into 37 yards. The Colts are 0-2, missing Alec Pierce and Ashton Dulin, and they have already given up chunk receptions to Zay Flowers and Tyquan Thornton. A 42-point total and a 1.5-point spread say this stays competitive, which is the only script Houston has right now — C.J. Stroud checking down because the run game is dead. Forty-nine and a half is last week’s floor, not his ceiling.