The Texans beat the 49ers 26-15, and it wasn’t that close.

Houston has won three of its past four games to improve to 3-4, while San Francisco fell to 5-3.

The Texans outgained the 49ers 475 to 223, had 31 more plays, 11 more first downs and won the time of possessions 41:22 to 18:38. The Texans did not punt until 4:13 remained.

The only reason it wasn’t worse was the Texans’ inability to score touchdowns as they went 1-for-5 in the red zone. Houston settled for chip-shot field goals of 33, 34, 37 and 30 yards by Ka’imi Fairbairn after stalling at the San Francisco 15, 16, 18 and 11.

C.J. Stroud threw touchdown passes of 12 yards to Jayden Higgins and 30 yards to Xavier Hutchinson. Despite missing wide receivers Nico Collins and Christian Kirk, Stroud completed 30 of 39 passes for 318

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