ESPN.com · Sep 25, 2018
J.J. Watt ends 'long drought' with first sacks since 2016
HOUSTON -- Tyrann Mathieu hasn't been in Houston for that long, but the Houston Texans safety is well aware of how good teammate J.J. Watt was before he spent the majority of the past two seasons on injured reserve.
And Mathieu was excited to see that high level of play return in Sunday's 27-22 loss to the New York Giants.
"I was in the back and I was just like, 'Go J.J.!,'" Mathieu said. "It was fun to see him flying around and getting back to it."
On Sunday, Watt had three sacks of Giants quarterback Eli Manning. They were his first sacks in more than two years -- he had 1.5 sacks against the Chiefs on Sept. 18, 2016 -- and stopped a streak of eight games without a sack.
