Texans vs. Browns Game Thread: Week 10, 2026

Taking the Texans, and I'm saying it from the recliner with sauce already on my jersey. Houston is 3-1 on the road, just hung 44 on the Chargers, and carries a +17 point differential while Cleveland sits at -35 and has dropped two straight, including that 6-27 faceplant in Pittsburgh. Yes, the Browns are 3-0 at home and Houston is 0-4 at home, but this game is in Cleveland, so the Texans' weird home slump is somebody else's problem. Stroud's group has a 104.8 passer rating to Cleveland's 91.2, and if the Browns can't stop the run, or anything else, they can't win.

I picked Houston and I was wrong. Browns 27, Texans 24, and my recliner took a beating. Houston held Cleveland to 99 rushing yards and still lost, so that's the exception to my rule and not the rule. The Browns are 4-0 at home and the Texans fall to 3-6, with a short week before Indianapolis on Thursday.