In a much contested game, Deshawn Watson and the Houston Texans beat Jacoby Brissett and the Indianapolis Colts 20 -17 on Thursday night, breaking a tie for first place in the AFC South.

No score after the first quarter, as the Texans’ defense got the best of Bissett sacking and rushing. The Colts’ success came at not giving a target to the accurate and elusive Watson. There were roamers making sure he didn’t run while the wide receivers were well guarded. Watson’s lone interception happened on his first quarter.

The game started opened up in the second quarter with the running game on both sides. Carlos Hyde ran for enough yards to get a field goal and Jonathan Williams ran enough for Bissett to steal a move from the Texans’ playbook when he ran it six yards for a touchdown on a QB sneak.

Bissett would not get close to another touchdown the rest of the way and finished with 129 yards passing on  16 for 29, no touchdowns and no interceptions. He was only sacked once, but still couldn’t find anyone open with the Texans defense hovering. Williams got the other lone touchdown and finished with 104 yards running.

Watson passed for 298 yards with two touchdowns and on interceptions for a QB rating of 104.6. He did not run the ball much as he was prevented from it, but the almost 300 yards and two touchdowns would prove to be enough in a game of defenses.

The play of the night was a touchdown throw by Watson to DeAndre Hopkins right down the middle for 35 yards on a beautiful arched spiral with 1:53 left in the first half.

The second half started 10-10, but the Colts scored first with a touchdown run by Williams for 13 yards. It started when the Texans made a gutsy play on their own 40 yard line and decided to go for it on fourth and three. They didn’t convert, turned the ball over, which led to Williams almost getting tackled in the middle, but bouncing off a defender, running to his left and scoring.  The Texans would only score a field goal in the third to end it 13-17.

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But that field goal would prove the difference maker, as Hopkins, made a spectacular catch down the sideline that led to another touchdown. Will Fuller V led all receivers with 140 yards from scrimmage.

The fight for the AFC south will be hotly contested, as both of these teams faced each other twice now and have split the series.

On Friday, the Cleveland Browns announced they traded running back Carlos Hyde to the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick.

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According to ESPN, the swap is pending a physical. In March, Hyde signed a three-year, $15 million deal with the Browns.

This season, 28-year-old Hyde — a former San Francisco 49er — has logged 382 rushing yards and scored five touchdowns. His departure from Cleveland will allow for other Browns running backs like rookie Nick Chubb, a second-round pick out of Georgia, to develop. Chubb already boasts two touchdowns and 173 yards after 16 carries this year.

Meanwhile, Jacksonville has been missing starting rusher Leonard Fournette for most of the 2018 campaign. The Jaguars (3-3, third in AFC South) announced earlier this week that Fournette will miss Sunday’s home matchup against the Houston Texans because of a re-aggravated hamstring injury that has sidelined him for the team’s past two games.

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This will surely hurt Jacksonville, as Fournette is one of the team’s top offensive players.

Fournette has suffered multiple injuries since he joined the NFL in 2017. His last full season came in 2015, his sophomore year at LSU. Last year, he was suspended one game for missing a team meeting.

Last week, the Jaguars signed another veteran running back: 31-year-old free-agent Jamaal Charles, who formerly played for the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos.

Veteran running back Carlos Hyde has reportedly agreed to a three-year deal with the Cleveland Browns.

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The agreement came just before the trade deadline at 4pm EST on Wednesday, which is when the new league year begins. The contract is reportedly worth more than $15 million, including $6 million in the first year.

An old tweet from Hyde has resurfaced amid this news. In July 2011 — before he joined the NFL — the former San Francisco 49ers player ripped into the Cleveland Sports scene:

It is uncertain which specific sports-related news led Hyde to tweet this (it may have been one relating to the Cleveland Indians of MLB, as baseball is one of the only major sports that is played in July), although if the running back was referring to the Browns, it seems like an accurate remark given the team’s performance during that time.

The Browns — who have been one of the worst teams in the league in recent years, and finished the 2017 season without a single victory — went 5-11 in 2010 and 4-12 in 2011. They finished 1-15 in 2016.

The Indians went 80-82 and missed the playoffs in 2011, while the Cleveland Cavaliers went 19-63 in 2010-11 and 21-45 in 2011-12.

The Indians have since reached a World Series and the Cavaliers won an NBA Championship (both in 2016).

The 49ers selected Hyde, 27, as a second-round draft pick in 2014 out of Ohio State. In 2017, he played a full 16-game season with the Niners for the first time in his NFL career, and his 59 receptions and 350 receiving yards were more than he finished with in his previous three years combined (50 receptions for 284 yards). Hyde thus gained a career-high 1,288 yards from scrimmage. Hyde’s 3.9 yards per carry in 2017 were a career low.

There is also speculation that Hyde’s arrival may spell the end of Isaiah Crowell’s tenure with the Browns.

Hyde’s agreement with Cleveland does not eliminate former Penn State running back Saquon Barkley from the Browns’ draft board, per league sources. Barkley impressed at this year’s scouting combine.

SANTA CLARA, CA – NOVEMBER 12: Carlos Hyde #28 of the San Francisco 49ers dives forward against the New York Giants during their NFL game at Levi’s Stadium on November 12, 2017 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)