O'Brien Coy About Draft Options

[HPF Bob]

That's kind of what I fear - seeing these QBs with "beer goggles".

Scouts Inc (via ESPN.com) lists Bridgewater as the 8th best NFL prospect. Bortles is the 10th best and Manzeil is the 21st.

If the Texans take a non-QB at 1-1 then get to the 24th pick of the first round with Manzeil and/or Garropolo still available, the Texans could package 2-1, 5-1 and/or 6-1 to trade up with Cincinnati (24th pick) or San Diego (25th pick) ahead of Cleveland (26th pick) to get their QBOTF. Maybe we offer them Keenum or Yates as a bonus. Yates beat Cincy in a playoff game two years ago and he may have more value to the Bengals than anyone in the league.

The genius would be that the Texans don't miss a round because we have the comp pick near the bottom of the 4th round and the Raiders pick near the top of the 6th round to approximate the draft hole we are dealing away.

Yes, we could sit and wait until 2-1 for that QB but we risk the Jaguars or the Browns trading up to jump ahead of us. Once the comp picks are added to the simulator, I'll have to run the scenario and see what that does to our draft.

We could go:

1-1 Clowney
1-24 Manzeil or Garoppolo
3-1 right tackle
4-1 ILB
4-comp RB
6-5 depth
6-comp depth
7-1 depth
7-comp depth