Darius Walker Waived; Ryan Moats Activated [Chron.com]

[Keith]

The Texans placed running back Darius Walker on waivers today and activated running back Ryan Moats from the practice squad. ...

Moats, 5-8, 215, was signed to the practice squad on Oct. 7. After Andre Davis underwent finger surgery this week, coach Gary Kubiak mentioned Moats as a candidate for kickoff returns. As it stands now, Jacoby Jones will be the primary kickoff returner.

The Dallas native Moats, played at Louisiana Tech and was drafted in the third round by Philadelphia in 2005. ...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6077879.html

[Mike]

This is not a surprising move at all. Moats can return kicks and Darius has not sniffed the field this year.

[jaimeg]

I who predicted he would be the MAN this year at running back.

It is probably a good thing he didn't get a chance, which means Green is healthy (knock on wood).

Walker, shouldn't give up the Houston apartment though.

[Nconroe]

I thought Darius did okay last year, what happened to him this year? change of coaches?

[Keith]

Mike sort of alluded to it in his post... Walker is not much of a special teams contributor, and with Andre Davis out for a couple weeks, do you trust Jacoby Jones to handle all of the return duties by himself?

Without Moats, I think David Anderson might also help with returns, but he is nothing special as a kick returner. I'm not sure Moats is anything special either (4 kick returns as a pro, and none noteworthy that I know of), but the coaches have confidence in him to do it whereas they didn't see much specials teams work out of Walker.

[popanot]

Walker is what he is. He shows flashes of talent, but if he ever got any significant time at RB, you'd always be yearning to upgrade. RBs like him are a dime a dozen. That roster spot is better off going to a SPT daemon.

[popanot]

Speaking of RBs, I know Benson isn't popular and has certainly had his problems and under-performed, but I'm still miffed at why we didn't bring him in for a look.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...t/6077395.html

I know we have Slaton and I like him a lot. But there was/is no guarantee he's going to succeed and we all know Green's time will be coming to an end soon. Even if Slaton does become great, shouldn't this team be looking at young talent and upgrading anywhere they can? At least for depth?

I don't get it, and honestly, it bothers me that they don't even bring players like this in for a look. All I'm asking is for them to take a look. They should bring in Chad Jackson for a look. Maybe they sign, maybe they don't. What's it hurt? It may pay off (Andre Davis). It almost seems Smith and Kubiak are cocky in a sense that they think this team is better than it is.