{"id":934,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/934","headline":"Texans' Tank Dell set to return against Giants","dek":"The wide receiver is back on the field roughly 22 months after a devastating knee injury that tore three ligaments and damaged his meniscus.","body":"Tank Dell is finally getting back on an NFL field. The Texans wide receiver is set to play Sunday against the New York Giants, marking his first game action in about 22 months.\n\nDell's absence traces back to December 2024, when he dislocated his left knee and tore three ligaments, with meniscus damage adding to the severity of the injury. The recovery timeline for that kind of damage is notoriously long, and Dell has spent nearly two years working his way back.\n\nFor Houston, getting Dell back adds a familiar weapon to the receiving corps as the team looks to round out its passing attack. For Dell himself, Sunday represents the finish line of a comeback that began with one of the uglier injuries a receiver can suffer.\n\nNo further details on his role or snap count Sunday have been specified.","published_at":"2026-10-20T00:05:54.422100+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Texans WR Dell to play Sunday in 1st game since major 2024 knee injury","url":"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50220990/texans-tank-dell-play-sunday-1st-game-knee-injury"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Texans plan for Tank Dell to play in Week 7","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/texans-plan-tank-dell-play-202009194.html"},{"outlet":"Pro Football Talk","publisher":"NBC Sports","title":"Texans plan for Tank Dell to play in Week 7","url":"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/texans-plan-for-tank-dell-to-play-in-week-7"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Texans WR Tank Dell to return vs. Giants nearly two years after devastating knee injury","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7705584/2026/10/19/tank-dell-texans-injury-return-giants/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Texans WR Tank Dell to return from gruesome 2024 knee injury on Sunday vs. Giants","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/breaking-news/article/texans-wr-tank-dell-to-return-from-gruesome-2024-knee-injury-on-sunday-vs-giants-194644238.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Texans HC DeMeco Ryans announces WR Tank Dell's return in Week 7","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/texans-hc-demeco-ryans-announces-195907411.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Houston Texans wide receiver Tank Dell will return to play Sunday against New York Giants","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/houston-texans-wide-receiver-tank-205626703.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://a1.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F1019%2Fr1733083_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg","credit":"ESPN","width":1296},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}