Richardson, though, was put under heavy pressure on both his second-and-15 and third-and-15 snaps, leading to an incompletion and a sack. Rigoberto Sanchez punted the ball back to the Texans, who ran the ball three times and punted back to the Colts with about a minute left.<\/p>\n
Without any timeouts, Richardson scrambled for 26 yards but stayed in bounds, keeping the clock running. He threw incomplete on the next three plays, leading to a do-or-die fourth-and-10 with 14 seconds to go on the Colts’ 35-yard line. Richardson completed a check down to running back Trey Sermon, and with one second left spiked the ball on the Colts’ 49-yard line.<\/p>\n
Richardson was sacked on the final play, ending the game.<\/p>\n
The loss effectively drops the Colts (4-4) three games behind the Texans (6-2), who now own the head-to-head tiebreaker in the 2024 season series.<\/p>\n
The Colts jumped out to an early lead when Richardson connected with a wide-open Josh Downs for a 69-yard touchdown. It was the Colts’ fourth play of 50 or more yards against the Texans in 2024; Houston hasn’t allowed a play of 50-plus yards in any of their other games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richardson, though, was put under heavy pressure on both his second-and-15 and third-and-15 snaps, leading to an incompletion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[198,697,7,17420,221,253,2368,37880,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-176778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-featured-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-game-recap","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-texans","14":"tag-houstontexans","15":"tag-indianapolis-colts-at-houston-texans-2024-reg-8","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114786207486156309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176778","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=176778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}