If the Texans were considering a change from Brock Osweiler to Tom Savage, it’s definitely not happening on Sunday against the Packers.
Savage is inactive for Sunday’s game. Per multiple reports, he has an infection.
Savage had not appeared on the Week 13 injury report.
John McClain of the Houston Chronicle reports that Savage has a “viral infection” that is causing him to get antibiotics. Tracy Wolfson of CBS reports that Savage woke up with an infection in the elbow of his throwing arm. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the infection is in the skin.
The development sounds a lot like the staph infection that suddenly appeared on the knee of defensive end J.J. Watt two days before an October 2015 game at Jacksonville. If the infection on the elbow of Savage is bacterial and not viral, the question becomes whether the Texans have now had a pair of staph infections in consecutive years, and whether that will prompt an effort to scrub the team’s locker room and other facilities.
Per McClain, Savage is expected to return to practice on Monday. So whatever it is, it’s serious enough to knock Savage out for Sunday, but apparently not much longer than that.
