Mock Draft Injection: What Does Pro Football Network Have The Texans Doing?

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Seth and Sean see what the staff of Pro Football Network has the Texans doing in each round of this year's draft in this Mock Draft Injection.

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00:00The mock draft injection. Do a mock draft, get you guys ready. What are the experts thinking

00:05the Texans are going to do? This Pro Football Network seven-rounder sucked me in this weekend.

00:11I'm guessing by like the fifth round, they're just letting AI draft the rest of it on these

00:15seven-round mocks. That's a lot of, or just going, eh, whatever. Here's this guy to that team,

00:20this guy to that team. If you're someone who does a seven-round mock and you're actually

00:23sitting and thinking about each pick, God bless you. I think, well, a lot of it when it comes

00:27down to team needs, it's, uh, that's, that's how you can let it guide you. You know, and

00:31then various, and then various bias you have from watching actual guys. That's one thing

00:35I've noticed. I'm, uh, and, and scouts will tell you about this. You know, Kiserios talked

00:41to us about this. You got to be really careful that you're not overly biased towards the guys

00:46you've seen in person or the, whatever. It's hard because you just, you, you just, you feel

00:52more comfortable with those guys that you've actually seen in the flesh and spent more time

00:56with. Yep. Um, all right. Uh, mock draft injection time. Let's do it. This is the pro football

01:01network, seven round mockaroo. Um, so let's hit it here. The, uh, with the 25th pick

01:06in the pro football network, seven round mock draft, the Houston Texans select,

01:12uh, Tyler Booker, Tyler Booker, interior offensive lineman, Alabama circle of life. This is the guy

01:20who was going to the Texans in every mock draft. When we started this process kind of flew off the

01:25radar for a little bit at one point flew off the radar. Cause he was getting drafted really early.

01:30Then he had not a great combine and he started to drift into the thirties. He's fluctuated quite

01:36a bit as have a lot of the guys outside of the top 10, you know, I do. I think it, it really feels

01:43like it's going to be wide open this year. I think a lot of guys that are going in mocks in the late

01:48second round are going to go maybe in the back half of the first round. It just, um, there in part

01:55of it's probably cause there's just so many underclassmen coming out these days, guys without

01:59a whole lot of experience that guys aren't as polished as they used to be. So, um, I, I'd be

02:05cool with this pick. There's a lot of things to get excited about with Tyler Booker as much as I've

02:10said in the past that, Hey, I try not to worry about the athleticism and testing as much when

02:16it comes to guards. I, I, there's a part of me that just now knowing that Tyler Booker tested as

02:24poorly as he did and then watching him more and more. It's hard lack of raw athleticism. He's this

02:31big, strong guy and he, he takes the right angles and he does all the things that you need to do

02:37to, to get away with not being as good an athlete, but it's, it's hard sometimes when you

02:43see guys beat him with speed off the snap and, and at times struggle with the athletic parts of the

02:49game. It makes me a little bit nervous. Having said that, I don't feel awesome about any of these

02:55guards. So I, I, it's not like I would be upset that they chose Tyler Booker over, um,

03:02Gray Zabal or, uh, Donovan Jackson or anything. It's just, I don't, I don't feel like any of those

03:09guys are slam dunk. I feel awesome about them with the 25th pick overall. Whereas guys like Josh

03:14Connerly and offensive tackle, I feel like those guys actually look a lot more like first round

03:19picks. I think the thing with Tyler Booker that might really put him over the top with the Texans

03:26is that people talk about him the same way they talked about Will Anderson and at Alabama, that

03:32his leadership skills and his, his personality traits are just top notch. Let's, uh, let's talk

03:38about that. Let's see here. Daniel Jeremiah, who invokes that exact name here saying Tyler Booker,

03:43no brainer for the Texans. You look your quarterback in the eye and not go offensive line with his first

03:49pick. And, and that's why to me, I just wrote down Tyler Booker coming out of Alabama. Think about

03:54D'Amico Ryans and his pipeline and information in Alabama. And when they tell me that he was the

03:59caliber of leader in the caliber of work ethic in bringing others along as a guy that the Houston

04:05Texans have playing a defensive end for him, uh, and that type of guy, and I think it's worked out

04:11pretty well for him there. Right. So that was Daniel Jeremiah. Yeah. Uh, you know, what's interesting

04:16though, too, and this is where I listened to Daniel Jeremiah closely, Daniel Jeremiah before the Texans

04:23drafted CJ Stroud a couple of years ago, he said multiple times, look, I know a lot of people are

04:29saying that the Texans aren't going to draft the quarterback, but I just, I cannot imagine them

04:34not drafting a quarterback. It just, it didn't make any sense to him. And ultimately in his final

04:39mock draft, he said CJ Stroud. And then he, and then he predicted a trade up for Will Anderson,

04:45which is a kind of freakish. And it also makes you feel like, Hey, Daniel Jeremiah is a guy that talks

04:50to a lot of front offices and gets a feel for them. Um, him saying that it's hard for him to

04:56imagine the Texans looking CJ Stroud in the eyes and not drafting an offensive lineman. Yeah. It

05:01resonates. Yep. Um, let's hit these other picks real quick with the 58th overall pick in the pro

05:07football network, seven round mock draft. The Houston Texans select TJ Sanders, defensive tackle,

05:13South Carolina. Uh, so they go, uh, interior O line, first round D interior D line, second round.

05:21And they say this, given their struggles up front on the offensive side of the ball, wouldn't be

05:24surprising if the Texans doubled down on offensive lineman early in the draft, though he's played

05:29quite a bit. So they're, they're not drafting an old lineman here, but they're acknowledging that

05:33could happen. They go on to say about Sanders specifically though, defensive tackle. He's played

05:38quite a bit of three, quite a bit as a three technique or as far out as a five technique.

05:42I like Sanders best as an athletic one technique who can generate pressure up the A, get the ball

05:49and his raw power at the point of attack. Yeah. Yeah. No. And that raw power at the point of attack,

05:54I think is a big one. He's a, he doesn't flash as much as I, as a guy that gets across the line

06:00of scrimmage really fast, but he is very athletic and he uses his hands really, really well.

06:06You watch him and you think, okay, there's a lot of dog in this guy. All right. He's got,

06:10he plays a physical brand of football and he only weighs 295, 297 pounds or so. But I could

06:17totally see him being a D'Amico Ryan's type of guy. You like that pick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

06:21With the 79th overall pick, the Houston Texans select Kyle Williams, wide receiver, Washington

06:26state. Seen a lot of Texan fans kind of in on Kyle Williams as a, as on with one of these third round

06:33picks. Fluid, long strided wide receiver. Who's quick out of breaks with good spatial awareness,

06:38giving him potential starting upside. Kyle Williams actually did an interview at the senior bowl

06:42and talked about who he patterned his game after. About the release for you, or is it more about

06:47the speed after the release? For me as a release, you know, I like separation. It's like COVID,

06:52like get away from me six feet. As much distance I can create. It's like COVID. I love it. What do you

06:56enjoy running against more, man or zone? Man. Okay. That's my bread and butter. There you go.

07:01Name a wide receiver or two in the NFL who you model your game after.

07:03Stephon Diggs, Tank Dale. Why?

07:06Dudes are not the biggest, but they definitely get open against all different types of corners,

07:11tall, long, short, and fast. So it's just like, they're really creative in space. And that's

07:15what I like to model my game after. Get open, move the chains, catch the ball. That's, you know,

07:19that's D'Amico's talked about what his, he and Nick, their recipe for the wide receiver position

07:25is guys that can get open and guys that can move. Kyle Williams. I wonder if he's available then,

07:32just because he seems like one of those guys that maybe there's a buzz about him. And as,

07:37as some of those people like Daniel Jeremiah start talking and getting a feel for what NFL teams really

07:43feel like that, I think that they, they might be a lot higher on Kyle Williams than perhaps he was

07:49early in the mock drafts. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. Uh, last couple we'll get to here.

07:5389th overall pick Emory Jones, offensive tackle out of LSU. So they get an interior O-lineman

07:59in the first round. They get a, uh, tackle in the third round, both out of the SEC.

08:05The only other pick that I cited here that I thought I just thought was interesting in the

08:09fifth round with the 166th pick, they do take a running back, Trevor Etienne, the brother of,

08:15uh, Travis Etienne, the former first round pick of the Jacksonville Jaguars who played for Georgia

08:21life, started out his career in Florida and finished up at Georgia. So what are the, what

08:25are the picks? And when you see various mock drafts and you see Texans fans reactions to them,

08:31what are the ones that anger them the most when it comes to guys in the first round? It feels to

08:35me like defensive tackle angers, a lot of Texans fans, if it, or anybody non, non-offense

08:41people get PO'd about that. Yeah. Defensive tackle. I don't, I don't see anybody get angry

08:46about offensive line. I see people get nervous about the Josh Simmons knee injury when they

08:51draft Josh Simmons and so many of them, like he's been drafted by so many of the mock draft

08:55guys. I see a lot of nervousness about that. That's nervousness. I still see people getting

09:00angry. First and foremost, if the Texans draft any defensive player, people get PO'd, but

09:05then there are a lot of people that if it's any, not get PO'd about that. I, and you know,

09:12we talked about at the beginning of this segment, how it just seems like the kind of year where

09:15it's just anybody's guests from pick 10 down through, through 60, exactly who the first

09:21and second rounders are. Um, that I feel like it's a classic year for Nick Casario to trade

09:29back. Well, yeah. And he may try to, we'll see. Um, he'll listen to everything. We know that,

09:34to answer your question, there had been a couple of mock drafts that you and I have done or that

09:39I've seen where they've drafted defensive end, which makes no sense to me. You know, just that's

09:44going to be somebody who's getting on the field for 15% of the snaps their rookie year in the

09:49first round. They want to draft one in the third round, knock yourself out. But in the other one,

09:54I would say is there've been a couple, remember there's a couple of drafts that had them moving

09:58up to take that Walter Nolan, who's a linebacker who people be. And I think a lot of that is your

10:03assessment of that. Yeah. Oh no. And what, no, who am I thinking of? No, it's not Walter

10:07Nolan. Uh, cause Nolan's a kid from Ole Miss. It's one of the linebackers. I'll find it. There's

10:13a linebacker that somebody had them moving up that a few people had been moving up for.

10:17It just didn't make sense. It was an off fall linebacker. Yeah. I'm trying to think it was

10:21Walter Nolan. It was somebody else. Yeah, but I like Walter Nolan. Um, I've got some reservations

10:26about him, but he just, he's a guy that plays, he kind of plays a lot like Will Anderson in that

10:31there's times where he just, his motor is going all the time, but he like, he needs to refine his

10:37technique some. So that's appealing to me, but I just, I just don't want a defensive player in

10:41the first round. Jalen Walker, the linebacker. I got it mixed up with Walter Nolan. Jalen Walker,

10:46the linebacker from Georgia is the one I'm thinking of.

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