Death, taxes, and Joe Mixon finding the end zone are the only three things Houston Texans fans have come to know are inevitable in 2024. Without Nico Collins, the Texans continue to emphasize the importance of the ground game against the Detroit Lions on Sunday Night Football.

On the sixth play of the Lions' opening drive, Texans safety Jalen Pitre deflected a pass from Lions quarterback Jared Goff, and safety Jimmie Ward intercepted it. The Texans wasted little time and marched into the end zone on an eight-play,

Instead of the Texans starting the relationship with a wait-and-see, prove-yourself approach, they did something entirely different. They proved how much they believed in Mixon by immediately agreeing to a three-year,