The Texans are going for their third win of the season and 10th in a row over the Jaguars. The Chronicle's Texans writers Jonathan M. Alexander and Brooks Kubena will provide updates and analysis throughout the game.
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.
A graduate of the University of Texas and Clear Lake High School, he's too young to remember the Oilers but old enough to remember a parking lot was once AstroWorld.Jonathan M. Alexander is a staff writer for the Houston Chronicle covering the Houston Texans and NFL. He is a Charlotte native and graduated from N.C. Central University, an HBCU in Durham, N.C. in 2013.
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.
In his free time, Jonathan enjoys coaching youth basketball, trying new restaurants and hanging with friends. He has one sister, Tyler, who has lived in Houston for six years. His parents, Stanley and Becky, who are his biggest influences, are both retired social workers.