Quote (draino @ Mar 12 2014 08:20pm)
Solid draft. Don't think we'll go TE in the 2nd but we'll see.
We'll probably draft Jadeveon Clowney number one overall and the best available quarterback in the second round to groom for the future. After that the Texans can draft anything they want because they have so many needs. I would probably draft a tight end, right tackle and nose tackle in any order during the third, fourth and fifth rounds.
We can use the sixth and seventh rounds to draft another hybrid DE/OLB. Considering we struck out on Sam Montgomery with a third-round pick and Trevardo Williams with a fourth-round pick in last year's draft. I trust Rick Smith's ability to sign an undrafted running back that will have some success in the NFL but if he wants to draft a running back that's fine also.
The Texans have very little depth at every position at the moment so they can't go wrong. But I'm so sick of having a 3-4 defense without a good nose tackle. If we have to draft a big boy up front that can occupy two blockers as early as the third round then so be it.
Romeo Crennel's defense has been known to have really big nose tackles in the past. When Romeo Crennel won three Super Bowls in four years as the Patriots defensive coordinator in 2001, 2003 and 2004, he had some big bodies at nose tackle like Ted Washington, who was 6'5 and 370 pounds.
That is why we didn't re-sign Earl Mitchell. The dude was so small as a nose tackle. 6'3 and 289. He couldn't occupy two blockers. Instead J.J. Watt took all of the pounding on our defensive line. We need a guy who is big and bad inside. Somebody who is 330 to 370 pounds.
This post was edited by Madmartigan on Mar 12 2014 10:32pm