Incomplete. So many of these guys are oozing potential, but may not realize it. In three years this could be the best class ever or none of the guys could be on the team anymore. This class could make or break O'Brien and Gaine.
I like Nimo's draft much better. We have a defense that is ready to win now, but developing our players on offense? I don't get what BOB and Gaine are trying to accomplish with this draft. Underwhelming to say the least.
We always get an eventual pro bowler, and two solid contributors from the draft each season. The pro bowler will be Xavier Crawford, who doesn't get extended in 2021 and goes to Indy to make the all pro team. Max and Kahale become borderline pro bowlers. Tytus catches an infection and loses 100lbs in a span of two weeks. Out of the league by 2020.
They hit need so that feels good. Between Howard and Scharping at least one of them should be an above average starter for the Texans and if at least one of the CB’s turns out to be pretty good then it should be considered a pretty good draft. But if Dillard turns out to be a pro bowler that’s all that we will remember from this draft.
Not getting Dillard messed up the rhythm of the draft. By squeezing the 4th-round pick, eventually used on the no-football-talent steroid-monster TE, a position BOB always fetishes over but for no football reason as the Texans are deep with athletic TEs and BOB doesn't know how to use them anyway, it cost them Miles Sanders versus a backup-ceiling OL in Scharping. Sanders is a very fine RB and the Texans are actually very thin there.
[Premium Post] Who among us would have given up Kahale Warring (pick 3.23) + Tytus Howard (pick 1.23) to move up one slot to have taken Andre Dillard in Round 1? Probably all of us. The Eagles jumping us for Dillard is sticking in my craw! GOOD DAY
Considering where Dillard was drafted, I would not. I would have given up a sixth for him. But we found excellent value in the sixth, so that makes it harder. What would have made sense to me would have been a fifth in next year's draft. It was one spot they had to move up to. Would not require a third. [/PREMIUM POST]
The pundits are never going to like this draft because of some of the perceived reaches and how we got outmaneuvered in the first. But, we should get a sense pretty quickly, I'd say in training camp in the fall, about the trajectory of some of these players. Particularly the OL and TE; maybe the DB's deserve a solid year plus before we cast judgment since it is a harder position to develop, along the lines of QB and WR. But the OL and TE we should have a sense, just like we did with Duane, that even if there are some early struggles, the coaching staff has faith in them to work through their mistakes by getting real first team reps. Scharping can be an understudy to Seantrel until he gets hurt. But I am looking for Tytus to supplant Davenport fairly quickly, and Warring to be that Y tight end that BOB was always dreaming Fiedorowicz would be for us.
I still remember last years draft which was an absolute smash hit given what we had to work with. I'm betting we get one starting tackle this year and two eventually. 2 contributing cornerbacks and at least one starter next year. Didn't get the te pick, but the write ups on this guy are extraordinary. Nice 5th round pick that could see the field this year. I don't see any reason to doubt gaine after last year just because kiper and company disagree.
You need to get a bona fide starter with a #23 pick. If the Texans had Dillard as the write in LT and they got jumped by one pick then it was a terrible mismanagement. Once they got jumped, they should have still gotten a guaranteed starter, which they could have done with Greedy or their #1 CB on the board.
People, myself included, fall in love with names and perceived value. In reality, none of that matters at all. There are reasons to like every single pick. There are also reasons not to like each pick too, but it seems that most of those reasons are tied to name value. I like this draft class. It looks rogue or unprincipled when you look at just value, but all of our picks are interesting. Will be moot if we can't coach em up, which is more likely that not to happen, I guess.
C+ for me. I actually like the players we got quite a bit, just not so much given what we need right now. We really need one of Howard or Sharping to be ahead of schedule but unfortunately I haven’t seen anything from Devlin/BoB to have much confidence in this.
Now that it's fully O'Brien's show and he has alignment with the GM, it was predictably bungled and terrible. That said, even though Tytus should have been a 2nd round pick he can still be really good. I also like Warring and Crawford as a value pick. The rest of the guys seem rough- they have good measurables but need a lot of work.
