The Roller Coaster That Is Texans Fandom
The spring bloom of April has filled the air with warmth, new horizons, and hay fever. An inviting breeze seems to pull open your neighbors screen doors and freshen up their porches, and the newfound shade of nearby trees comes as a welcome surprise. This kind of weather can only mean one thing: the NFL […]
Welcome to the offseason. The initial wave of free agency madness is done. We are but a few weeks away from the NFL Draft and the promise of new talent infusions. For the Houston Texans, their free agency forays managed to add some needed options at the offensive line, as well as locking up some […]
We are 14 days out from the start of the NFL Draft. Houston enters with eight total picks including four in the top 70. That draft capital will inevitably move and shake according to the whims of General Manager Nick Caserio. What’s more prevalent is not when the Texans draft, but who. Houston Texans 2026 […]
Hours spent pouring over film, digging into player backgrounds, and tracking countless school transfers all culminate in this list of my favorite draft targets for the Houston Texans. These are the players I’d gladly pound the table for if I were sitting in the Texans’ draft war room regardless of where they ultimately come off […]
In an attempt to keep the playing field as level as possible, the NFL has fairly strict controls on what teams can and cannot do in the offseason as far as coaching up players, installing schemes and other necessary preparations for the coming season. NFL Communications NEW YORK — April 3, 2026 — Voluntary offseason workout programs […]
The Texans are continuing to have an active offseason: KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson has just reported that Houston is exercising the fifth-year option on QB CJ Stroud and DE Will Anderson: Under these options, CJ Stroud will be due $25.904 million and Will Anderson will be due $21.512 million in 2027. As of the 2026 league […]
As you’ll see in an article later this week, this will be the most complicated draft to predict in the Nick Caserio era. Balancing needs, positional value, and Caserio’s draft strategy creates a tangled web of conflicting priorities. The Houston Texans’ biggest need, defensive tackle, has never been drafted by Caserio earlier than the sixth […]
This will probably end up being a series of posts because there is more than one way to rate your general manager’s drafting. In this edition, we are looking only at the Texans drafts. Nick Caserio has five drafts in the books, so it seems like a perfect opportunity to look back. We will look […]
The NFL Draft hasn’t started yet, but that doesn’t the Texans can’t get busy. Jonathan M Alexander just reported that the New England Patriots are sending a 2027 seventh-round pick and LB Marte Mapu to the Houston Texans in exchange for a 2026 sixth-round pick: A former third-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, Mapu […]
If you asked Houston Texans fans whether they had faith in the team to make the obvious moves after last season, the answers likely would’ve been split. Last offseason, it felt like the Texans made all the wrong decisions. The biggest one was trading away star left tackle Laremy Tunsil and replacing him with Cam […]
In a rare feat of quality media content, ESPN’s Matt Miller posted a comprehensive seven-round mock draft for the upcoming NFL Draft. There were no trades in Miller’s mock, which means Houston has eight selections across seven rounds to complement the already robust roster. Miller selected multiple players from my Texans’ Draft Needs Big Board […]
With the coming of draft season, we enter a realm of instant grading. However, there is the school of thought that it takes 3 years to really figure out if a draft pick will pan out in the NFL. This, in theory, accounts for the slow-developers and/or the rookie flash-in-the-pans that can’t further evolve into […]
Houston Texans News Why you’ll be spending more to watch the Texans play this year (Chron.com) Texans’ Cal and Hannah McNair show support for C.J. Stroud despite playoff woes (Houston Chronicle) 7 Things We Learned From the Texans at NFL Owners Meeting (Sports Illustrated) Texans Could Play International Game in 2026 (Sports Illustrated) Texans’ Woody […]
The Houston Texans hit the 2026 off-season with a lot of uncertainty. Would they fix the issues that plagued the 2025 offense? Would quarterback C.J. Stroud stay or go? What was general manager Nick Caserio going to do about the dysfunctional offensive line? So far, Caserio has brought in a host of solid free agents […]
Since Matt Weston and Brett Kollmann bequeathed the site’s draft analysis to me, I’ve always felt closely tuned in to who the Texans are picking come each April. For instance, the 2024 Texans draft class was full of prospects I projected landing in Houston, including Kamari Lassiter, Cade Stover, and Jamal Hill. Even though Nick […]
One of the talking points of the offseason is the improvement of the offense. We have focused most of our attention on the offensive line, running game, and the quarterback. A topic that hasn’t been mentioned much is the second wide receiver slot. There are a few candidates to take over the slot with Christian […]
Nick Caserio’s masterclass of an offseason will reach a crescendo in less than one month when the 2026 NFL Draft commences. The Houston Texans General Manager has filled just about every starting spot on the roster before the draft, which places the team in a unique position to truly draft the best player available. Even […]
Sports championships. A measuring stick for civic pride, and, in theory, the goal for any pro sports organization (words from the owners of the LA Angels notwithstanding). One could argue that sporting competition has replaced the old wars between city-states as a way to show the superiority of one city/state over another. Granted, some of […]
By far, the most influential person in the history of sports statistics is Bill James. He focused mainly on baseball, but there are some concepts that are portable to other sports. One of those concepts is the concept of similarity scores. The idea was to look at players across the different category and find the […]
Houston Texans News ‘The Texans’: Wyatt Teller’s son called free agency move to Houston months ago (Chron.com) Way, WAY Too Early Houston Texans 53-Man Roster Projection (Houston Press) Texans draft big board: 20 players team could pursue in first three rounds (Houston Chronicle) Source: Texas Tech WR Caleb Douglas to meet with hometown Texans, workouts-meetings […]
The Texans had arguably the best pass-rushing duo in the league last season in Will Anderson Jr. and Danielle Hunter. Both earned All-Pro honors, and it’s safe to expect they’ll once again be among the league’s elite in 2026. Most teams struggle to find even one high-level pass rusher. The Texans have one on each […]
When Houston Texans general manager Nick Caserio took over the role in January of 2021, he agreed to take the wheel of a sinking ship. The years of Bill O’Brien, Jack Easterby, David Culley and the like had run fan confidence to a near all-time low for Houston sports. Empty seats were often common in […]
One of the most-viewed articles from last year’s draft has returned. This is the Houston Texans 2026 Draft Big Board, which ranks the top players at the positions of need for the Texans. Positions of need: offensive line, defensive tackle, linebacker, safety, running back, and tight end This has been a much harder class to […]
I write a companion piece for The Crawfish Boxes called “In the lab.” The bent of the articles are similar. Essentially, I am a data nerd. Four of my five books relied heavily on complex statistics. I literally swim in data at work as well. Who the heck knows, maybe I am somewhere on the […]
One of the last offensive lineman to be highlighted in this series, Hecht came onto the scene after an elite set of Senior Bowl practices where he rarely lost a rep. Two years of starting experience with zero sacks allowed is as robust a stat line as possible. He’s a pure center with zero snaps […]