{"id":108142,"date":"2025-06-06T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/108142\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T08:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:43:27","slug":"c-j-stroud-dealing-with-shoulder-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/108142\/","title":{"rendered":"C.J. Stroud dealing with shoulder soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Will Anderson Jr. breaks down upcoming season for Houston Texans<\/p>\n

Mackenzie Salmon chats with Texans defensive end Will Anderson Jr. about the upcoming season and his partnership with USAA.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

Houston Texans<\/a> quarterback C.J. Stroud<\/a> has not been doing the thing he’s best known for \u2013 throwing the football \u2013 lately.<\/p>\n

According to multiple reports Tuesday, Stroud is still not throwing at the penultimate day of the Texans’ offseason organized team activities (OTAs)<\/a> while he deals with a sore shoulder.<\/p>\n

Said Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans: “There’s no concerns with C.J. It’s just general soreness. We’re taking extra precaution with him, but he’ll be good to go. No concerns on my end there.”<\/p>\n

Shoulder issues are not new for Stroud.<\/p>\n

In 2021, during his redshirt freshman year at Ohio State, the former Buckeye missed his team’s Week 4 meeting with Akron while dealing with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

HOUSTON TEXANS NEWS: Veteran CB Ronald Darby retiring at age 31<\/a><\/p>\n

“[T]here was still kind of this feeling that he had that he really couldn’t shake, and so maybe rest is something that would go a long way for him,” Ohio State head coach Ryan Day said at the time.<\/p>\n

Stroud returned to action one week later and didn’t miss another game for the remainder of his collegiate career.<\/p>\n

However, the 2023 No. 2 overall pick had another issue with his shoulder a couple of years later, early in his rookie season.<\/p>\n

In the lead-up to a Week 2 matchup with the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> in 2023, Stroud was listed on the injury report as questionable to play with a right shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

He went on to make the start, completing 30 of 47 pass attempts for 384 yards and two touchdowns in a 20-31 loss.<\/p>\n

Stroud has only ever missed two games so far in his two-year pro career, both because of a concussion he suffered his rookie year in a Week 14 clash with the New York Jets<\/a>. He played (and started) in every game during his sophomore campaign last year.<\/p>\n

Whether his current shoulder soreness will become a bigger problem still remains to be seen. Both of his previous run-ins with shoulder issues came at early points in those seasons, so perhaps the latest case is once again a matter of getting some of the rust off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Anderson Jr. breaks down upcoming season for Houston Texans Mackenzie Salmon chats with Texans defensive end Will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[323,247,265,322,20844,1456,1028,2005,21,7,221,253,2368,20842,2004,392,226,248,267,330,206,255,88,6,245,338,4791,2250,9,266,1457,222,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-108142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-323","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-big","12":"tag-big-10-hub","13":"tag-c-j","14":"tag-c-j-stroud","15":"tag-colts","16":"tag-day","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-houston","19":"tag-houston-texans","20":"tag-houstontexans","21":"tag-hub","22":"tag-indianapolis","23":"tag-indianapolis-colts","24":"tag-jets","25":"tag-national","26":"tag-national-sports","27":"tag-negative","28":"tag-new","29":"tag-new-york-jets","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-nfl","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-negative","34":"tag-ryan","35":"tag-ryan-day","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-sports-news","38":"tag-stroud","39":"tag-texans","40":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114635538747538338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}