{"id":644841,"date":"2026-01-01T05:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/644841\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:38:32","slug":"texans-p-tommy-townsend-is-the-afc-special-teams-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/644841\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans P Tommy Townsend is the AFC special teams player of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texans offense got off to a great start against the Chargers last Saturday, but they slowed down over the rest of the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Houston was still able to pick up a 20-16 win that booked them a spot in the AFC playoffs and punter Tommy Townsend&#8217;s work helped to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Townsend punted five times during the game and four of those kicks led to the Chargers starting drives inside their 20-yard line. The last of them pinned the Chargers at their 2-yard-line and the Texans picked up their final points of the game after forcing a Chargers punt six plays later.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL announced Townsend as the AFC special teams player of the week on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texans offense got off to a great start against the Chargers last Saturday, but they slowed down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[241,7,221,253,2368,6,222,7577,49632],"class_list":{"0":"post-644841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-houstontexans","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-texans","15":"tag-the-texans","16":"tag-tommy-townsend"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115818234448499884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644841","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=644841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}