Bucs beat Texans 20-19 after late Mayfield drive

HOUSTON — Baker Mayfield guided the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on an 11-play, 80-yard drive capped by Rachaad White’s two-yard touchdown run with six seconds remaining to lift Tampa Bay to a 20-19 victory over the Houston Texans on Monday night at NRG Stadium. The comeback improved the Buccaneers to 2-0 to open the season and dropped Houston to 0-2.

Mayfield finished with 215 passing yards and two touchdown passes and kept the decisive drive alive with a 15-yard scramble on fourth-and-10. The game had swung in Houston’s favor moments earlier when Nick Chubb burst through for a 25-yard touchdown with 2:10 left, giving the Texans a 19-14 lead after a failed two-point try. Houston’s momentum followed two big special teams plays late in the fourth quarter: a blocked punt that led to a 53-yard field goal by Kaimi Fairbairn and a 53-yard punt return by rookie Jaylin Noel that set up Chubb’s score.

Houston squandered an earlier prime opportunity in the fourth quarter, failing to convert three plays from the Tampa Bay 1-yard line. Nico Collins was stopped a yard short on a first-down catch, Chubb was stuffed on second down, and quarterback C.J. Stroud’s two incompletions left the Texans...