The Houston Texans are in the middle of a special season. While it has been up and down at times, they’re currently 9-6 with a two game lead in the AFC South. Their last two games consist of hosting the Baltimore Ravens and taking a road trip to take on the Tennessee Titans.
However, news out of Houston today had more to do with the remainder of this season and all of next season.
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Houston Texans’ star wide receiver Tank Dell injured his knee after catching a touchdown pass from CJ Stroud on Saturday. Tank Dell was later found to have suffered a torn ACL and dislocated kneecap.
However, it didn’t stop there:
Texans wide receiver Tank Dell suffered extensive damage to his left knee beyond tearing his anterior cruciate ligament and dislocating the entire knee.
As Texans coach DeMeco Ryans alluded to in his news conference, the former University of Houston standout has additional damage to his knee that will need to be repaired.
Dell tore his medial collateral and lateral collateral ligaments and sustained damage to his meniscus, according to league sources.
Dell suffered a season-ending injury Sunday while catching a touchdown pass against the Kansas City Chiefs when he collided with teammate Jared Wayne in the end zone.
“It’s unfortunately a significant knee injury,” Ryans said as he updated Dell’s status Monday during a news conference at NRG Stadium. “He dislocated his knee, he tore his ACL, and some other things there he will have to get repaired. So, he’ll be out for the year. Tough news.”
His outlook to play next season, due to the timing of the injury and the severity and multitude of the damage that will require more than one surgical procedure to repair all is regarded as an extremely unlikely scenario. Dell has a long, grueling road of recovery ahead of him.
“This is a much more difficult recovery than just an ACL, it’s a knee dislocation with three of four major ligaments torn and it’s a long road back,” former 17-year NFL team head doctor David Chao, an orthopedic surgeon and the owner of Sports Injury Central, a website that analyzes sports injuries, told KPRC 2 in a telephone interview.
“Unfortunately, it has to be considered career threatening, but we all hope not career-ending. Surgery is usually staged with this severe an injury. Whatever you can repair, you repair now, the MCL and LCL. The ACL is typically a reconstruction and you delay that until later when swelling goes down and there’s more mobility.
Here is a look at Dell’s season stats:
| Receiving | Rushing | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Team | Opp | Result | Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Touch | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | ||||||
| 2024-12-21 | HOU | @ | KAN | L 19-27 | 7 | 6 | 98 | 16.3 | 1 | 30 | 85.7% | 14.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16.3 | 98 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2024-12-15 | HOU | MIA | W 20-12 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 0 | 15 | 100.0% | 13.0 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 15.0 | 3 | 13.7 | 41 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-12-01 | HOU | @ | JAX | W 23-20 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 0 | 23 | 25.0% | 5.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-11-24 | HOU | TEN | L 27-32 | 5 | 3 | 72 | 24.0 | 0 | 39 | 60.0% | 14.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24.0 | 72 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2024-11-18 | HOU | @ | DAL | W 34-10 | 7 | 4 | 54 | 13.5 | 0 | 26 | 57.1% | 7.7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4.0 | 5 | 11.6 | 58 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-11-10 | HOU | DET | L 23-26 | 9 | 5 | 39 | 7.8 | 0 | 13 | 55.6% | 4.3 | 1 | -6 | 0 | 0 | -6.0 | 6 | 5.5 | 33 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-10-31 | HOU | @ | NYJ | L 13-21 | 9 | 6 | 126 | 21.0 | 0 | 50 | 66.7% | 14.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 21.0 | 126 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-10-27 | HOU | IND | W 23-20 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 8.8 | 1 | 12 | 100.0% | 8.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8.8 | 35 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2024-10-20 | HOU | @ | GNB | L 22-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2024-10-13 | HOU | @ | NWE | W 41-21 | 9 | 7 | 57 | 8.1 | 1 | 20 | 77.8% | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8.1 | 57 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2024-10-06 | HOU | BUF | W 23-20 | 4 | 4 | 38 | 9.5 | 0 | 19 | 100.0% | 9.5 | 1 | -5 | 0 | -5 | -5.0 | 5 | 6.6 | 33 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-09-22 | HOU | @ | MIN | L 7-34 | 6 | 5 | 62 | 12.4 | 0 | 19 | 83.3% | 10.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12.4 | 62 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-09-15 | HOU | CHI | W 19-13 | 4 | 1 | -3 | -3.0 | 0 | -3 | 25.0% | -0.8 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 18 | 5.3 | 4 | 3.3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-09-08 | HOU | @ | IND | W 29-27 | 7 | 3 | 40 | 13.3 | 0 | 23 | 42.9% | 5.7 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 17 | 9.5 | 5 | 11.8 | 59 | 0 | 0 |
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