Texans snapped football through C.J. Stroud's legs to set up Woody Marks TD

Billy Heyen

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Texans snapped football through C.J. Stroud's legs to set up Woody Marks TD image

The Kansas City Chiefs would've been proud of this one.

The Houston Texans scored a touchdown on Sunday on a ball snapped between the legs of quarterback C.J. Stroud.

They were stuffed twice down by the goal line before breaking out the apparent trick play.

When you watch the replay, it's not even entirely obvious that it was on purpose. Stroud looked at least a tad confused.

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But that's probably part of the play design, although the QB and RB came pretty close to colliding, which wouldn't be ideal.

Here's the play:

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Marks had himself an eventful start to the game.

It seems like a weekly occurrence now that Marks goes to the blue medical tent for evaluation. He did that during the first quarter on Sunday.

But he came back in with the Texans down in close, and he cashed in the drive on a fun play.

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