Texans DB Carted Off With Leg Injury vs. Jaguars

Stewart has been a premier part of the Texans' secondary since releasing veteran C.J. Gardner-Johnson earlier in the season. Through the eight games he's been active this year, he's logged 25 tackles and two passes defended, next to Calen Bullock in the back-end of Houston's league-best defense.

Now, though, he could be facing a critical injury, and a chunk of time to be missed, depending on what the results are of the severity.

Texans Lose DB M.J. Stewart With Leg Injury

It's another tough loss to be suffered by a Texans team that's been beaten up by injuries, especially heading into this week for their division matchup vs. Jacksonville.

Houston entered the game being down their starting quarterback, C.J. Stroud, two starters on the offensive line, Ed Ingram and Tytus Howard, and another starter in their secondary, with Jalen Pitre missing out on the action as well.

Now with Stewart out, it leaves the Texans to elevate Myles Bryant to a starting safety role for the rest of the way in Jacksonville, who was brought to the active roster with his third practice squad elevation on the season earlier in the week.

The injury effectively keeps the blows coming in a game that the Texans have been outplayed in all three phases of the ball, being outscored in both the first and second quarters, heading into the half down by two scores.

We'll see how this number-one scoring defense adapts throughout a day that's been less-than-ideal for Houston altogether.