{"id":366903,"date":"2025-09-14T08:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/366903\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:15:13","slug":"sterling-shepard-week-2-preview-vs-the-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/366903\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Shepard Week 2 Preview vs. the Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Sterling Shepard has a good matchup in Week 2 (Monday at 7 p.m. ET), facing the Houston Texans. The Texans are conceding the 10th-most passing yards in the NFL, 224 per game.<\/p>\n

Last season, Shepard grabbed 32 passes on 51 targets for 334 yards (25.7 yards per game) and one touchdown.<\/p>\n

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Shepard vs. the Texans<\/p>\n

Shepard vs the Texans (since 2021): 1 GP \/ 80 REC YPG \/ 1 REC TD
\nThrough the air, Houston gave up more than 100 receiving yards to only three players last season.
\nAgainst the Texans last season, 30 players hauled in a TD pass.
\nLooking at pass defense, Houston allowed just one player to catch at least two touchdown passes against it last year.
\nThe 201 passing yards the Texans gave up on average per game a year ago made them the NFL’s sixth-ranked defense against the pass.
\nThe Texans’ defense was ranked 30th in the NFL with 31 passing TDs conceded last season.<\/p>\n

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Shepard Receiving Insights<\/p>\n

Shepard hit the over on his prop bets for receiving yards in 22.2% of his games (two times in nine games).
\nHe was targeted on 51 throws last year, averaging 6.5 yards per target (115th in league).
\nIn one of 13 games last season, Shepard had a receiving touchdown. But he had no games with multiple receiving TDs.<\/p>\n

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Shepard’s Last Season Performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Sterling Shepard has a good matchup in Week 2 (Monday at 7 p.m. ET),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[61566,7,221,253,2368,6,6604,250,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-366903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-ds-sports","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-houstontexans","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sterling-shepard","15":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","16":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115201659702963843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366903","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=366903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}