Chargers and Texans both start 2026 NFL season 0-4

Both teams made the playoffs last season; no playoff team has opened 0-5 the following year since 2017.

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The Los Angeles Chargers and Houston Texans are both 0-4 to start the 2026 NFL season. Both teams qualified for the playoffs the prior year.^[1] This is an extremely rare start. No team coming off a playoff berth has opened the next season 0-5 since the 2017 New York Giants.^[2]

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The Los Angeles Chargers and the Houston Texans, both teams that made the playoffs last season, started 0-4 in the 2026 NFL season. · NBC Sports
No playoff team has started 0-5 in the next year since the 2017 New York Giants. · NBC Sports

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