The season is over before it began for rookie .The have placed the third-round defensive lineman on injured-reserve, the team announced Wednesday.Nix was inactive for the team's first three regular-season tilts. The former Notre Dame star underwent a scope on his left knee before training camp and never found his way back onto the field.It's a disappointing lo s after the C.J. McCollum Jersey traded back into the third round to pick up Nix as a hopeful plug-and-play interior force for a defense already sporting and rookie pa s-rusher .With Nix out of the picture, the have signed 34-year-old Ryan Pickett to backup at the nose tackle position in 's 3-4 defense.A former mainstay, Pickett started all 16 games for Green Bay last season, but the veteran provides little more than emergency padding for a Houston defense that expected much more out of its third-round pick.The latest recaps all of the Week 3 action and picks Al-Farouq Aminu Jersey