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00:00Let's stick with the Texans.
00:01We talked earlier, Kaplan and I talked about it earlier in the night.
00:05The Texans have a very deep wide receiver room,
00:08but the Tank Dell injury puts them down a man for at least a year,
00:12a very serious injury.
00:13They've had a couple of wide receivers in this draft.
00:16How do you feel about the Texans building up that side of the ball
00:19after moving on from their offensive coordinator, Bobby Slowick?
00:22Yeah, I like what they did.
00:23Again, you can never have, you know, not enough depth.
00:27I think that's the biggest part.
00:28And you look at John Mechie as well, you know, coming out of Alabama,
00:31high expectations, did have the situation where he did have lymphoma.
00:35He got through that, but really hasn't panned out to be the real number two
00:39outside of Nico Collins, maybe potentially this year.
00:43But you add two big play wide receivers from Iowa State,
00:46Noel more of a slot type of wide receiver.
00:48Higgins was on the outside.
00:50But Noel's a guy that can just play like Tank Dell, can get over the middle,
00:54runs very clean routes, has great hands.
00:57And I like what the Texans have done.
00:59I think there's a few teams offensively and defensively that I think have won
01:03rounds one and number two.
01:05We talked about what Atlanta has done.
01:07I like what Cleveland has done now in the second round in terms of acquiring
01:11a lot of players.
01:12And now the Texans fill multiple needs on the offensive side of the ball.
01:16Yeah, Ben, pretty fascinating.
01:17The teammates from Iowa State, two Cyclones ending up in Houston.
01:21What do you think?
01:22Blue, the only two teammates at the FPS level a season ago to both rank in the top 10 of
01:27receiving yards.
01:28Jalen Knoll, a little bit shy of 1,200.
01:31Jaden Higgins just behind him, 1,183.
01:36In cap, the Texans did not pick last night.
01:39Of course, they traded out of number 25 overall.
01:42They moved to the early portion of the second round.
01:45They get Jaden Higgins.
01:46Later on in round number two, Ariante Urseri, the big offensive tackle from Minnesota.
01:51And here in round number three, Jalen Knoll, the teammate of Higgins in Ames.
01:55They're now teammates again in H-Town.
01:58Of course, a lot of offensive pieces to surround C.J. Stroud with.
02:02How have you evaluated what the Houston Texans have done?
02:04Yeah, so I like Noel as a slot receiver.
02:06So that's where Christian Kirk is.
02:08But Kirk's on the final year of his deal.
02:10Noel is a talented kid.
02:11Now, what a receivers coach told me about him is if you're going to not play him in the
02:15slot, you've got to keep moving him to free him up because physically it's just not big
02:18enough.
02:19Really good.
02:21His teammate is really tall.
02:23Yeah.
02:23And they've added size.
02:25Nico Collins is an absolute stud.
02:27I like their tight end group.
02:28This is a team, if they could protect the quarterback.
02:31Ben, that was the problem.
02:32Yeah.
02:33Offensive line.
02:34And by the way, they moved a bunch of their offensive linemen off the team this year.
02:37They've got to rebuild this thing.
02:38That is the key to their growth is rebuilding this offensive line.
02:41Two consecutive AFC South championships for the Houston Texans.
02:45Of course, each of the two years, D'Amico Ryans has been the head coach in H-Town and
02:50CJ Stroud has been the quarterback plus 115 blue for the Texans to make it three in a row.
02:56They are the favorites currently to win the AFC South in 2025.