When the Houston Texans started the 2021 season, there was one spot that stuck out like a sore thumb.
That position group was the running backs, carrying an obsessive and excessive amount of runners with five on the depth chart. That’s a Matt Nagy “nine tight ends” kind of fixation going on here. The problem is that one of those running backs serves little to no purpose on the roster.
If you guessed Rex Burkhead, then you are correct. Burkhead has hardly been a part of the offense, only getting the ball in two games and totaling two catches for 11 yards.