The Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans are playing live on the NFL Thursday night football schedule for Week 6 and the game is from Reliant Stadium as Andrew Luck matches up with Arian Foster in an AFC South division game on CBS and the NFL Network and the matchup will be streaming online at 8:25 pm ET.
The Texans come into the game after a tough loss to the Cowboys and they already have more wins than they did last season. The Colts have won three in a row after starting off 0-2 and Andrew Luck comes in as the best quarterback by stats in the league so far this season. Arian Foster is in the lineup and he will be key for the Texans and while he is dealing with a hamstring injury, he is ready to go. Foster had his best game of the season last week and while he railed against Thursday night games, he could have a big game just for the spite of it all.
Luck is well on his way to a 4,000 yard season once again and he already has 16 touchdowns and just four interceptions in five games. Luck has been putting up points for his team and the Colts have scored over 40 in two of the past three games. The team won ugly last week against the Ravens and now they have a chance to keep things going against the Texans. Luck and the Colts have been great against the division since he was drafted and he has only lost a few of those games.
This matchup is big since both teams are 3-2 and this could be a major factor in deciding who wins the division this year. The Colts have been to the playoffs in each of the past two seasons and the Texans are clearly improved after the team won just two games last season and ended up with the first overall pick in the draft. The team took Jadeveon Clowney and he has been injured for most of the year and now Ryan Fitzpatrick comes in as the QB and he will be matching up with Luck in this game.
Ahmad Bradshaw being healthy has been a key for the Colts and he has been playing much better than last season and he helped seal the win last week with 68 yards on the ground. Bradshaw and Trent Richardson have been splitting time this season and the Colts have been getting enough production to rank right in the middle of the league in yards per game. The team is first in passing yards per game and the defense has been solid and after losing two games to hard teams like the Broncos and Eagles, they now can win four in a row.
The Colts come into this stretch looking to get on a roll, as they have three of the next four games on the road. The team has the Texans and then the Bengals at home and heading into their bye week they go on the road for two games. The matchup with the Steelers will be tough and the Giants game is on Monday night football and their offense has been rolling the past few weeks as well and then the team comes out of the bye week with a home game against the Patriots.
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