Draft Wrap-up

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Originally Posted by painekiller

My question is come September how many TE's can you have on the roster and how many can be active on game day? IMO Owen is back, Dreessen is now on notice, Casey has to make the sophomore leap most do, no way they cut a fourth round pick, so what about Hill? Is he a bust already? Are they going to admit after one season they should have taken Casey with the 122nd pick or how about they should have taken Johnny Knox like I was advocating.

The Texans have some the best TEs in the league, I challenge you to find a better group, but we have a FS hole, a DT hole, a middle of the OL hole that is much bigger.

If you have to have bodies for mini-camp and OTAs then get street FA veterans and some UDFA that can get you through until the injured guys are ready. The way this is working out we are either cutting a 4th round pick or a 4th round pick from last year and/or a solid veteran who is also your long snapper.

Right now it appears that PUP is going to be used on a couple TEs.

Heck, I'm not arguing about the number of TE's. If nothing else some of them will make good special teamers. And I wasn't questioning how many TE's we will go in to OTA's with. As a matter of fact when it does come down to cutdown time, and barring injury, the coaches are going to have a helluva time picking who makes the team, who goes to special teams, and who they will have to let go of.

[kRocket]

We led the league in offense without OD so I doubt they have bad feelings about Dreeson unless he can't come back this year. I feel it is a good time to trade OD now that we have good TE's to replace him. He should have nice asset value even coming off an injury, but I realize they can't move him until the doctors sign off on him to play. So they are kinda trapped between a rock and a hard place. Some or all of injured TE's may not come back at all, who knows. Pitts is in the same boat. We won't resign him until he passes his physical and he won't be ready until OTA's at the earliest. Then we may have to compete for him with other teams.

[Roy P]

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b3WaL

Two-thirds of the guys were captains, 80 percent of them have their college degrees. Over 85 percent have been three-year starters. We have a saying that what we're looking for is a ‘Tough, smart, physical player with high character that has the competitiveness and the passion about the game of football.' That's our motto, and that's what we've found.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b3WaQ

Eugene Wilson, Texans free safety: The Texans feel better about Wilson, who was on IR with a foot injury for the last six games last year, than I do. Paired with the physical Bernard Pollard, Wilson needs to prove he can be a consistent and rangy free safety, and show better ball skills as he looks to set a tone for a group of young corners.

The alternative at this point is Dominique Barber and perhaps Troy Nolan, who missed his rookie year with hand injury.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b3WaP

I'm surprised so many thought the Texans were looking for a 330-pound nose tackle. A nose tackle is a run-down player. The Texans already have two of those starting — Okoye and Shaun Cody.

The Texans didn't need a defensive tackle to stop the run. They needed a tackle to pressure the passer.

Ideally, Mitchell will come off the bench in passing situations and use his 4.76 speed to harass the quarterback. He'll play next to Smith, who moves inside on passing downs. Williams and Barwin will play on the outside.

If Williams is healthy and Barwin makes the kind of improvement most are predicting, the outside pressure should improve dramatically. The question is what kind of heat Smith can generate playing with Mitchell rather than Okoye on passing downs.

The Texans wanted a defensive tackle who had what can't be coached — quickness off the ball and speed up the field. Mitchell has that. They figure Bill Kollar, who's one of the best defensive line coaches in the league, can teach Mitchell what he doesn't know and hope he's a fast learner.

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Specificaly they drafted a DT they hope can put pressure on P. Manning, V.Y., and a guy named Garrard. We have simply got to win more games in our division. Kollar has his work cut out for him.