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Nico Collins

WR, 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 2026-09-28 · team report
Lined games
45
2023-09-10 to 2026-09-13
Markets priced
3
95 graded market-games
Receiving yards, over rate
51%
18-17
35 decided of 35 lined
Games played
48
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Receiving 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
025507510012581at KC'24 DIV25at LA'25 W152vs TBW2104at JAXW379vs TENW452at BALW527at SEAW775vs DENW9136vs JAXW1092at TENW1155vs BUFW12121at KCW1457at LACW1775vs BUF'26 W1

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 28
Week 4 · Sunday, October 4 · 1:00 PM ET
Dallas Cowboys at Houston Texans
Reliant Stadium · astroturf · retractable

No one on the Texans saw more targets than Collins in 2025: 120 of the 487 they threw in the 15 regular season games he played. He is listed at 6-4 and 222 pounds, taller than 93 percent of the 350 wide receivers on a 2026 roster and heavier than 95 percent of them. Defensive backs gave him 4.84 yards of cushion at the snap, a tighter cushion than 99 percent of the 67 receivers 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.

Receiving matchup

What the defense he meets has given up through the air, how much his offense throws, and how much of that goes to him
Dallas Cowboys defense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Passing yards allowed per game32nd of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed265.9yds
Completions allowed per game27th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed22.4
Yards allowed per completion29th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed11.87yds
Passing touchdowns allowed per game31st of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed2.06TD
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%
Share of passing yards gained after the catch28th of 32 · 1st = highest share41%
Nico Collins
2025 regular season · 15 games
Targets per game8.0
Receptions per game4.7
Receiving yards per game74.5yds
Catch rate59%
Share of his team's targets25%
Offensive snap share77%
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 targets 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
Dallas Cowboys defense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Offensive touchdowns allowed per game32nd of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed3.47TD
Points allowed per game32nd of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed30.1
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
Receiving yards3518-1751% of 3567.876.568.5 (2026-09-13)2023-09-17 to 2026-09-13
Receptions197-1237% of 195.555.215.5 (2026-09-13)2023-11-26 to 2026-09-13
Anytime touchdown4117 of 4141%40% implied17 scored, 16 implied37% implied (2026-09-13)2023-09-10 to 2026-09-13

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

Receiving 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 games18-1751%67.835
Home12-667%67.218
Away6-1135%68.517
2026 season1-0100%68.51
2025 season6-650%68.612
2024 season7-464%76.711
2023 season4-736%58.111

Game by game

Receiving yards · last 14 lined games · books = how many had a number up when we captured it
DateOppLineResultGradedBooks
2026-09-13vs BUF68.575over6
2025-12-27at LAC62.557under6
2025-12-07at KC68.5121over4
2025-11-20vs BUF75.555under7
2025-11-16at TEN67.592over1
2025-11-09vs JAX59.5136over2
2025-11-02vs DEN60.575over2
2025-10-20at SEA67.527under6
2025-10-05at BAL70.552under2
2025-09-28vs TEN70.579over5
2025-09-21at JAX69.5104over5
2025-09-15vs TB75.552under4
2025-09-07at LA75.525under1
2025-01-18at KC79.581over5

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
SeasonGamesReceiving yardsReceptionsGames with a TD
2026175 (75.0/gm)7 (7.00/gm)1 of 1
2025161,138 (71.1/gm)74 (4.62/gm)6 of 16
2024141,209 (86.4/gm)80 (5.71/gm)7 of 14
2023171,461 (85.9/gm)91 (5.35/gm)8 of 17

Tracking profile

2025 season · percentile = the share of the 67 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
Separation at the catch point
2.26
6
Cushion at the snap
4.84
1
Yards after catch above expectation
1.20
84
Share of the team's intended air yards
38.5%
75

This week's line

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Where these numbers come from

On method: every figure here is a count or a rate over completed games, measured against numbers the books actually posted, with its window and its games shown beside it. Small samples are left small and labelled. Nothing here is a pick or a recommendation.

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