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C.J. Stroud

QB, Houston Texans. This page is line history: what he did against the number the books posted, game by game, with the window and the sample size printed beside every figure. Records run through the 2025 season.

Data as of 2026-09-07 · team report
Lined games
52
2023-09-10 to 2026-01-18
Markets priced
8
283 graded market-games
Passing yards, over rate
54%
26-22
48 decided of 48 lined
Games played
52
in our archive window

Passing yards against the posted line

Last 14 lined games · bar = what he did, number on the bar = the result, dash = the opening line (median of the books quoting it, each book's earliest capture) · teal over, red under
0100200300204at JAX'25 W3233vs TENW4244at BALW5229at SEAW7318vs SFW879vs DENW9276at INDW13203at KCW14260vs ARIW15187vs LVW16244at LACW17169vs INDW18250at PITWC212at NEDIV

Counts of what happened against a real posted number, not a projection.

Matchup context

The game Houston Texans plays next · 2025 regular season · rosters checked September 7
Week 1 · Sunday, September 13 · 1:00 PM ET
Buffalo Bills at Houston Texans
Reliant Stadium · astroturf · retractable

Stroud threw 423 of the 466 pass attempts the Texans made in the 14 regular season games he played in 2025. He is listed at 6-3 and 218 pounds, taller than 61 percent of the 116 quarterbacks on a 2026 roster and lighter than 58 percent of them. He held the ball 2.83 seconds before throwing, quicker than 56 percent of the 32 passers the league's tracking data qualified in 2025. The 17 defenses on the Texans' 2026 schedule gave up 233.4 passing yards a game last season; the 17 they met gave up 231.0.

Passing matchup

What the defense he meets has given up through the air, how often his offense throws, and what he has done with it
Buffalo Bills defense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Passing yards allowed per game1st of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed170.2yds
Pass attempts faced per game2nd of 32 · 1st = fewest faced27.3att
Completion rate allowed4th of 32 · 1st = lowest allowed59.7%
Passing touchdowns allowed per game6th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed1.12TD
Sacks made per game19th of 32 · 1st = most2.12
Interceptions made per game11th of 32 · 1st = most0.76
Houston Texans offense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Pass attempts per game8th of 32 · 1st = most34.2att
Passing yards per game14th of 32 · 1st = most232.7yds
Pass plays as a share of plays from scrimmage16th of 32 · 1st = most pass-heavy56%
Sacks taken per game9th of 32 · 1st = fewest1.82
Air yards per pass attempt9th of 32 · 1st = most8.19yds
C.J. Stroud
2025 regular season · 14 games
Pass attempts per game30.2att
Passing yards per game217.2yds
Completion rate64.5%
Yards per pass attempt7.19yds
Sacks taken per game1.64
Sacks credited to their defenders. It is not always the same count as the sacks their opponents were charged with allowing.Pass attempts plus sacks taken, over those plus rushing attempts. A sack is a called pass that never became an attempt, so it counts on the pass side. Kneel-downs sit inside the rushing attempts and cannot be separated out.These are box score totals, not charted by alignment, so there is no split of what a defense gives up to slot receivers, to backs or to any other role. Nothing here claims one.

Rushing matchup

What the defense he meets has given up on the ground, how often his offense runs, and how much of that is his
Buffalo Bills defense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Rushing yards allowed per game28th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed136.2yds
Rushing attempts faced per game14th of 32 · 1st = fewest faced26.5att
Yards allowed per rushing attempt30th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed5.14yds
Rushing touchdowns allowed per game31st of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed1.41TD
Houston Texans offense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Rushing attempts per game13th of 32 · 1st = most27.9att
Rushing yards per game22nd of 32 · 1st = most108.9yds
Pass plays as a share of plays from scrimmage16th of 32 · 1st = most pass-heavy56%
Yards per rushing attempt29th of 32 · 1st = most3.90yds
C.J. Stroud
2025 regular season · 14 games
Rushing attempts per game3.4att
Rushing yards per game14.9yds
Yards per carry4.35yds
Share of his team's rushing attempts12%
Offensive snap share91%
Pass attempts plus sacks taken, over those plus rushing attempts. A sack is a called pass that never became an attempt, so it counts on the pass side. Kneel-downs sit inside the rushing attempts and cannot be separated out.His carries over his club's, counted across the games he played. Games he missed are in neither total.These are box score totals, not charted by alignment, so there is no split of what a defense gives up to slot receivers, to backs or to any other role. Nothing here claims one.

Touchdown matchup

Touchdowns the defense he meets has allowed, beside his own offense
Buffalo Bills defense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Offensive touchdowns allowed per game20th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed2.53TD
Points allowed per game12th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed21.5
Houston Texans offense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Offensive touchdowns per game25th of 32 · 1st = most1.94TD
Rushing plus receiving touchdowns. Return and defensive scores are not in this figure.

Method: per-game figures over the 2025 regular season, with the games behind each one shown on its panel and every 2026 opponent rated on that same season. Clubs and roles move between seasons. Conditions, not forecasts.

Record against the posted line, by market

Every market our archive priced him in at least eight times · the line is each book's opening number, median across the books quoting it · a market we priced fewer times is left off rather than shown with a sample too small to mean anything
MarketLined gamesOver-UnderOver rateAvg lineAvg resultLast line seenWindow
Interceptions thrown5120-3139% of 510.500.610.5 (2026-01-18)2023-09-10 to 2026-01-18
Passing touchdowns5020-3040% of 501.481.341.5 (2026-01-18)2023-09-10 to 2026-01-18
Passing yards4826-2254% of 48238.9239.3218.5 (2026-01-18)2023-09-17 to 2026-01-18
Completions2510-1540% of 2521.220.221.5 (2026-01-18)2023-11-26 to 2026-01-18
Pass attempts259-1636% of 2533.132.333.5 (2026-01-18)2023-11-26 to 2026-01-18
Anytime touchdown463 of 467%15% implied3 scored, 7 implied12% implied (2026-01-18)2023-09-10 to 2026-01-18
Rushing yards2715-1256% of 2720.417.111.5 (2026-01-18)2023-09-17 to 2026-01-18
Rush attempts117-464% of 113.23.73.5 (2026-01-18)2024-09-29 to 2026-01-18

Over rate excludes pushes and prints the decided count it is taken over. Whole-number markets (receptions, interceptions) push often, so overs divided by games would read several points off. The touchdown market posts no number at all, only a price, so it is graded as scored or not against the price implied by the books before their margin.

Where that record came from

Passing yards · every split carries its own sample size, and a small one is left small rather than rounded into a headline
SplitOver-UnderRateAvg linen
All lined games26-2254%238.948
Home15-865%239.123
Away11-1444%238.725
2025 season8-850%224.016
2024 season9-950%246.518
2023 season9-564%246.114

Game by game

Passing yards · last 14 lined games · books = how many had a number up when we captured it
DateOppLineResultGradedBooks
2026-01-18at NE218.5212under6
2026-01-12at PIT233.5250over6
2026-01-04vs IND219.5169under5
2025-12-27at LAC224.5244over6
2025-12-21vs LV224.5187under5
2025-12-14vs ARI223.5260over6
2025-12-07at KC233.5203under4
2025-11-30at IND234.5276over1
2025-11-02vs DEN216.579under1
2025-10-26vs SF199.5318over7
2025-10-20at SEA224.5229over6
2025-10-05at BAL219.5244over3
2025-09-28vs TEN221.5233over7
2025-09-21at JAX224.5204under6

Season totals behind those lines

Our own game logs · totals with the per-game figure beside them · only the quantities the markets above are graded on
SeasonGamesInterceptions thrownPassing touchdownsPassing yardsCompletionsPass attemptsRushing yardsRush attemptsGames with a TD
20251613 (0.81/gm)21 (1.31/gm)3,503 (218.9/gm)314 (19.6/gm)502 (31.4/gm)220 (13.8/gm)51 (3.2/gm)1 of 16
20241913 (0.68/gm)21 (1.11/gm)4,254 (223.9/gm)377 (19.8/gm)593 (31.2/gm)317 (16.7/gm)64 (3.4/gm)0 of 19
2023175 (0.29/gm)26 (1.53/gm)4,557 (268.1/gm)354 (20.8/gm)553 (32.5/gm)177 (10.4/gm)43 (2.5/gm)3 of 17

Tracking profile

2025 season · percentile = the share of the 32 qualified players (8+ tracked games) this player is above on the raw number · these are style and situation measures, so a high bar means more of the thing, not better
Completion % above expectation
0.1pts
50
Passer rating
89.8
38
Intended air yards per attempt
8.0
53
Time to throw
2.83s
44

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