Pro Football Focus<\/a>\u00a0handed out player grades for those who took a snap in Houston’s win over the Steelers and we broke them down by offense and defense. Below are the five highest and lowest grades on the offensive side of the ball after a promising win, setting up another divisional round game for Houston in this regime.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
There were a few surprises in terms of the highest- and lowest-graded players, both on offense and defense. In fact, most of you can already guess who graded out in stellar and horrendous fashion.<\/p>\n
Here’s a look at the five best offensive players below:<\/p>\n
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Jan 12, 2026; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Payton Wilson (41) tackles Houston Texans wide receiver Christian Kirk (13) during the first half of an AFC Wild Card Round game at Acrisure Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Top 5 offense<\/p>\n
There’s not much more that you can say about Kirk’s performance other than “wow” from the public standpoint. Not only was this the highest marker for the veteran slot receiver since joining the Texans, but it marked the highest PFF grade in his seven-year tenure.<\/p>\n
Marks, who posted his first 100-yard game as a professional, was set up with a great protection set thanks to Ingram, who posted an 86.4 run-blocking grade.<\/p>\n
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Jan 12, 2026; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Houston Texans wide receiver Christian Kirk (13) celebrates a touchdown with wide receiver Nico Collins (12) against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the first half of an AFC Wild Card Round game at Acrisure Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Bottom 5 offense<\/p>\n
TE Harrison Bryant – 55.8<\/p>\n
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Both Howard and Ersery struggled on the left side with run blocking, grading out with a failing frame overall of 43.1 and 45.3. Noel, who dropped his one targeted pass, finished with a 56.0 receiving grade and 61.2 route-running grade.<\/p>\n
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Jan 12, 2026; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Houston Texans running back Woody Marks (27) and quarterback C.J. Stroud (7) celebrate after a touchdown during the second half of an AFC Wild Card Round game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Acrisure Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Other notables<\/p>\n
WR Xavier Hutchinson – 60.5<\/p>\n
This article originally appeared on Texans Wire: Texans PFF grades: Top & Bottom offensive players in win vs. Steelers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You know it’s a dominant win when a defense outscores an opposing offense. That became a reality on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[1586,7579,1028,7578,304,1718,7,26044,221,253,2368,14656,569,289,249,6,587,533,14820,57,18781,222,1830,764,13122,2931,18944],"class_list":["post-675085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-texans","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-blake-fisher","tag-c-j-stroud","tag-calen-bullock","tag-christian-kirk","tag-dalton-schultz","tag-football","tag-harrison-bryant","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-houstontexans","tag-ingram","tag-jayden-higgins","tag-jaylin-noel","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-nick-chubb","tag-nico-collins","tag-offense-and-defense","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sheldon-rankins","tag-texans","tag-trent-brown","tag-tytus-howard","tag-will-anderson","tag-woody-marks","tag-xavier-hutchinson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115890221036394308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675085","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=675085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}