HOUSTON – The Houston Texans couldn’t have asked for a better start to their Sunday Night Football game against the Detroit Lions.

On the sixth play of the Lions’ opening drive, Texans safety Jalen Pitre deflected a pass from Lions quarterback Jared Goff, and safety Jimmie Ward intercepted it.

The Texans wasted little time, marching into the end zone on an eight-play, 33-yard drive, capped by an 8-yard Joe Mixon rushing touchdown. The score put them up 7-0 in the first quarter.

Joe Mixon starts scoring!

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Quarterback C.J. Stroud kept the scoring drive alive by converting a third-and-10 and a third-and-16 with passes to wideouts Tank Dell and John Metchie III, respectively.