Texans 44, Chargers 22: C.J. Stroud Throws Five Touchdown Passes in a Rout at SoFi
Houston's Sunday was the mirror of its season's start. Stroud threw five touchdown passes — two of them season-best 63-yarders — and the Texans won for the third time in four games, 44-22 over a Chargers team that still has not won.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — C.J. Stroud threw five touchdown passes, including a pair of season-best 63-yarders to Tank Dell and Kayshon Boutte, and the Houston Texans routed the Los Angeles Chargers 44-22 on Sunday at SoFi Stadium, in the wire reports read by the desk Sunday night.
The loss was the Chargers' eighth straight defeat, in front of booing home fans, and dropped Los Angeles to 0-8. Houston, at 3-5, has now won three of four after starting the season 0-4 — the slow start that buried September has given way to the division's most interesting November team.
Los Angeles quarterback Justin Herbert visited the blue medical tent during the game, USA TODAY reported, and still produced the Chargers' longest play — a 58-yard touchdown pass to Quentin Johnston with 12:47 left in the fourth quarter. It was not close to enough: the Texans' defense, in USA TODAY's account, got the best of the veteran quarterback across the afternoon.
For Texas, Sunday closes as a sweep: Dallas rallied to win at Indianapolis in the early window, and Houston ran away in the late one. The Texans' next test is a trip to Cleveland on November 15.
