Hello, everybody.

Welcome into the Fantasy Pros football podcast.

I'm Ryan warmly joined by Derek Brown and by Pat Fitzmorest.

Guys, we're talking fantasy takeaways for the AFC South today.

We'll start right at the top.

Not the most impressive division in the NFL.

They were led by Houston Texans, 10 and 7.

They got the four seed in the playoffs. Fitz,

what was your fantasy takeaway for Houston? It was that C.J. Stroud was completely undermined

by terrible offensive line play and will bounce back in 2025. So yeah, don't give up on C.J.

Stroud.

He burned a lot of people pretty badly.

There were people drafting him as a top five quarterback this year because he was coming off such a good rookie season and the past catching weapon looked spectacular with

Nico Collins, Tank Dell, both guys fully healthy, and then Stefan

Diggs added to the mix. People were legitimately and justifiably excited about that.

Well, those three receivers missed a combined 17 games this season due to injury, but really the

much bigger problem for Stroud was the play of the

offensive line. The Texans gave up 54 sacks, tied for the third most in the league,

and they allowed pressure on 26.9% of CJ Stroud's dropbacks. That was the highest pressure

rate allowed in the NFL this year. I have no doubt that the Texans are going to prioritize

offensive line in the offseason. They really have to. Their defense is good and it doesn't

have many glaring holes. They can focus on that and they have to protect their franchise quarterback.

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