The Houston Chronicle's football writers and columnists make their predictions for the Texans' Week 17 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Brooks Kubena, a Houston native, joined the Chronicle in 2021 to cover the Texans and the NFL after reporting on LSU football for The Advocate | Times-Picayune in Baton Rouge for three years. Kubena received APSE National Top 10 honors six times for his reporting, including his investigative work into LSU's mishandling of Title IX cases and a secret settlement involving Les Miles and a former student. Kubena also contributed to the AP Top 25 poll and held a Heisman Trophy vote.
He's covered a variety of beats in his career from K-12 schools, public safety, town government, recruiting, Duke basketball, UNC basketball and football at the Raleigh New & Observer, and most recently spent two years covering the Carolina Panthers for the Charlotte Observer.