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Houston Texans

2024 season · 17 games

Neutral pass rate

60%

NFL Rank: 6th

Pace · sec/snap

32.2s

NFL Rank: 19th

Points / game

21.9

NFL Rank: 19th

RZ trips / game

3.35

NFL Rank: 14th

Top third of the leagueMiddleBottom third

Pass rate 59%NFL Rank: 9thPROE +0.8NFL Rank: 6thPlays / game 62.2NFL Rank: 15th

Pecking order

Weighted opportunities per game · Min. 6 games played

1
Joe MixonRBEarly Downs3rd DownTwo-MinuteGoal Line
23.1
2
Stefon DiggsWR
12.4
3
Nico CollinsWR
12.4
4
Tank DellWR
9.3
5
Dalton SchultzTE
7.5
6
John Metchie IIIWR
5.5
7
Dameon PierceRB
5.1
8
Dare OgunbowaleRB3rd Down
4.8
9
Robert WoodsWR
3.8
10
Xavier HutchinsonWR
2.8
11
Cade StoverTE
2.5

Target distribution

Share of team targets

Target share

QB

C.J. Stroud

WR

62%

NFL Rank: 13th

Nico Collins18%
Tank Dell15%
Stefon Diggs12%
John Metchie III7%
Robert Woods6%

TE

20%

NFL Rank: 20th

Dalton Schultz16%
Cade Stover4%

RB

17%

NFL Rank: 15th

Joe Mixon10%
Dare Ogunbowale5%

Top 5 per position · players below 2% of team targets are left off

Backfield

How the carries are actually distributed

Bell CowBackfield share
Under halfLead BackBell Cow

Lead back at 67% of RB carries · the 3rd-down and goal-line jobs are spread around, so it reads as a Bell Cow

67%
11%
11%
Joe MixonEarly Downs3rd DownTwo-MinuteGoal Line

67% carries · 50% snaps · 55% RB targets

Dameon Pierce

11% carries · 10% snaps · 4% RB targets

Cam Akers

11% carries · 9% snaps · 7% RB targets

Dare Ogunbowale3rd Down

8% carries · 28% snaps · 30% RB targets

J.J. Taylor

3% carries · 3% snaps · 3% RB targets

Backfield roles

Who owns each job

Early Downs

339 total

1
Joe Mixon229 of 339
68%
2
Cam Akers
12%
3
Dameon Pierce
11%

Clear owner

3rd Down

50 total

1
Dare Ogunbowale26 of 50
52%
2
Joe Mixon
44%
3
Dameon Pierce
4%

Shared

Two-Minute

56 total

1
Joe Mixon27 of 56
48%
2
Dare Ogunbowale
34%
3
Dameon Pierce
11%

Clear owner

Goal Line

17 total

1
Joe Mixon14 of 17
82%
2
C.J. StroudQB
12%
3
Cam Akers
6%

Clear owner

Red zone

Inside the opponent 10

PASS 52%
RUN 48%
Joe MixonRB65 opps · 12 TD
Nico CollinsWR13 opps · 7 TD
Dare OgunbowaleRB11 opps · 1 TD
Tank DellWR10 opps · 3 TD
John Metchie IIIWR9 opps · 1 TD
C.J. StroudQB8 opps · 0 TD

Personnel groupings

Share of offensive snaps

11 — 1 RB, 1 TE, 3 WR
63%NFL Rank: 16th
12 — 1 RB, 2 TE, 2 WR
32%NFL Rank: 7th
21 — 2 RB, 1 TE, 2 WR
2%NFL Rank: 18th
Other groupings
3%NFL Rank: 26th

Vacated opportunity

2024 usage now off the HOU roster

27%

of targets · 150 tgt

16th most in NFL

22%

of carries · 94 car

14th most in NFL

Stefon DiggsWR64t · 3c→ NE
John Metchie IIIWR37t→ NYJ
Cam AkersRB7t · 40c→ SEA
Dameon PierceRB4t · 40c→ KC
Robert WoodsWR30t→ PIT
J.J. TaylorRB3t · 10cFA
Diontae JohnsonWR4t→ CLE
Andrew BeckFB1t→ NYJ

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2024 season data · Updated Sep 15, 2026

Data: play-by-play, snap counts and player info from nflverse (snap counts originally from Pro Football Reference), used under CC BY 4.0. Play-action and personnel charting from FTN Data via nflverse, used under CC BY-SA 4.0; the figures WaivrWire builds from it are shared under that license too. The numbers here are WaivrWire's own calculations from that data, not figures published by those sources.