Tyrod Taylor day to day with injury for Texans; Deshaun Watson won’t play

HOUSTON — Houston backmost Tyrod Taylor is time to time with a hamstring wounded arsenic the Texans look a speedy turnaround with a Thursday nighttime crippled against Carolina.

If Taylor can’t play, Deshaun Watson volition not beryllium an option, with manager David Culley saying Monday that Watson would beryllium inactive for Thursday’s crippled conscionable arsenic helium has been for the archetypal 2 games.

Watson has been listed arsenic inactive/not injury-related pursuing his commercialized petition and aft 22 women filed lawsuits alleging intersexual battle oregon harassment.

Culley said Taylor was getting connected MRI connected Monday and that the squad would cognize much astir his availability afterward.

“If he’s capable to spell and acceptable to go, he’ll play,” Culley said.

Taylor was injured successful the archetypal fractional of Houston’s 31-21 nonaccomplishment to Cleveland connected Sunday and didn’t instrumentality aft halftime. Rookie Davis Mills, a third-round prime from Stanford, took implicit and threw for 102 yards with a touchdown and an interception.

If Taylor can’t play Thursday, the Texans apt volition bring up Jeff Driskel from the signifier squad to backmost up Mills. Culley said they haven’t yet discussed the anticipation of signing different backmost this week.