Injuries derailed Kirk’s 2024 season, in which he played just eight games, catching 27 passes for 379 yards and one touchdown. It marked consecutive seasons on the downward spiral after a 1,108-yard 2022. The Jacksonville Jaguars planned to release the veteran before the Texans swooped in with a trade of a 2026 seventh-round pick.<\/p>\n
A full-time slot, Kirk complements Collins on the outside.<\/p>\n
“Slot magician man,” Collins said of Kirk. “Slot magic man, he is in the slot going crazy. That’s one guy you need. Just another playmaker. Another guy in the offense that’s going to make plays and that’s one of them.”<\/p>\n
With Dell’s availability uncertain this season after a gruesome late-season<\/a> injury, there will be a battle for targets behind the alpha Collins. Kirk, John Metchie III<\/a>, Higgins, Noel, Xavier Hutchinson<\/a>, and free-agent additions Justin Watson<\/a> and Braxton Berrios<\/a> are among those battling for reps during offseason workouts and into training camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injuries derailed Kirk’s 2024 season, in which he played just eight games, catching 27 passes for 379 yards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[1227,304,7,221,253,2368,88,6,533,609,4267,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-90464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-christian-kirk","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-texans","13":"tag-houstontexans","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nico-collins","17":"tag-no-minute","18":"tag-offseason-news","19":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114596492524445114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90464","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=90464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}