Ron "The Show" Hughley Thinks Texans Should Stay Away From This Draft Pick

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This wide receiver is someone Ron "The Show" Hughley says the Texans should stay away from in the first round of the NFL draft.

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00:00Clint, we've heard a lot of players connected with the Texans.

00:05And the one to me, I don't think he's going to be a bad football player.

00:10I think he's going to be a good football player.

00:11I think he's going to play a lot of years in the NFL.

00:14I just think for what this team needs and to me what you should look for

00:23in a first-round pick, a top 25 pick at wide receiver,

00:27I just don't think the Ohio State wide receiver, Emeka Ekbuka,

00:36I don't believe that's what you go for when it comes to a top 25 pick.

00:48I don't believe that's what you go for when you're looking for a starting caliber

00:53wide receiver that you want to, I would think, on this team,

00:58get speed and open things up.

01:01And when you look at what they say are his maybe weaknesses

01:07or things that could potentially give him issues at the next level,

01:11I just don't think that's the type of receiver that the Texans probably need right now.

01:17In this, average, quickness, and separation in and out of breaks.

01:23Struggles to drop weight and open quickly on cornerbacks.

01:26Speed appears average in drive phase of the route.

01:31Takes time to find acceleration after slowing feet inside the route on receiver screens.

01:38Things like, to me, I just feel like they need an outside threat that could really,

01:46hell, I'm not even going to say put fear yet,

01:48but give some concern to the defense that you might go past it.

01:53So you have speed.

01:54I just think this is, this to me, you get guys like this in the second or, you know, third round,

02:00you know, I get that.

02:02I think, I think for me though, even though he has a lot of those swarm qualities

02:07that they love and they're looking for it, leadership is one of his big strengths

02:12and, and, and, and how he, how he helps other teammates and stuff.

02:18Like that reliability, good hands.

02:20Like he's got some strength, but to me for this team,

02:23and when you talk about first round, I, I, that's not enough for me.

02:28Yeah, look, I, I've, I've said this a million times over the last couple of months, man.

02:32When it comes to the draft, when it comes to free agency,

02:34they didn't really accomplish this in free agency,

02:36but there, there's a real problem of speed, a need for speed on, on this, on this offense.

02:40And, and, and they, they went through free agency and they added Christian Kirk.

02:44Christian Kirk's got some twitch and some speed from the, from the slot position.

02:48And, and, and, and I believe he can get over the top of defenses kind of thing,

02:51but I don't, I don't know that defenses walk up and go all hell.

02:54Christian Kirk is on this offense.

02:56We better look out.

02:56I don't feel like teams look at Nico Collins as that.

03:00Now they focus on Nico Collins.

03:01They tilt the coverage of Nico Collins.

03:02They give Nico Collins all the due respect, but, but I don't know that Nico's necessarily that guy.

03:08If I'm just going to beat you over the top, if you blink, you know, if you,

03:10if you even peek in the backfield.

03:12So with that said, I look at this team with the Texans.

03:16If one of their first round or second round pick,

03:18really anywhere that they draft guys that are going to be offensive skilled players.

03:22Uh, I think they, I think their, their weakness does not need to be.

03:26The one thing that they surefire better have is speed, twitch, explosiveness, the ability to separate.

03:32Hey, if you don't necessarily have the best hands in traffic, cool.

03:35If you don't, if you don't necessarily aren't the most polished guy and you, and you, you know,

03:41come back to the ball every time or you run out of your breaks or you give up on routes.

03:45Okay.

03:45That, that, that we can work on and we can work through.

03:47I think speed needs to be the absolute must when you're drafting.

03:51You can't teach that or change.

03:53You can't cheat.

03:53You can't.

03:54It's you damn right.

03:54You can't coach it.

03:55That's for damn sure.

03:56And so.

03:58I just,

03:59all more so than a good,

04:00well-rounded receiver that can play slot and inside that blocks.

04:03Well, you've got plenty of those guys that can block.

04:06Well, that, that can, uh, that, that can, you know, see, see defense as well that have

04:11been in the league.

04:11And, um, you've got plenty of guys that, that are developmental kind of guys.

04:16Um, I just think you, the one thing you lack across the board, there's not a guy on this

04:21offense and let's say not named Nico Collins.

04:25Let's, let's, let's give Nico his due respect.

04:26Cause I do think he's got the speed.

04:28I just think he's used differently.

04:30There's not a guy on this offense that you are, you are, you come into the game and you

04:34go, man, this, this cat right here got some good.

04:36Wheels look out now, let this guy get an open field.

04:39If you want to, he's going to chew you up, but you don't have that guy.

04:43Um, not saying you don't have really good players, not, not saying you don't have specific

04:46players that have certain skillsets that you can win with, but you just don't, you're

04:50tidy and ain't running away from nobody, right?

04:52You're running back.

04:53I ain't running away from nobody.

04:55Um, you're receiving core overall lack speed.

04:58No doubt about it.

04:59Um, so I, it's they, to me to draft a guy with a premium draft pick first, second round

05:05that, that has suspect speed that, that would, that would not be ideal for me for the Houston

05:12Texans.

05:12No, especially right now.

05:14I like if they had, you know, two speed guys on the edge, they had like, they had two guys

05:22with, with good speed.

05:23Hell if tank was, if tank was still here, right?

05:26If they had tank and they had Nico and tank was there and you knew he was going to be

05:29there.

05:30And you said, Hey man, this guy would fit in perfect in the middle as a slot guy for us.

05:35When you have the two guys on the edge, we can use them as a reliable guy, but no, you

05:41wouldn't spend $16 million to get a guy that, that has that.

05:45It has more twitching speed and you got the guys on the outside to take that this team

05:50and we've talked about it is in desperate need of that.

05:53Yeah.

05:54Well, and this is where we talked about it yesterday.

05:56This is where the, the, uh, you know, the guy that fits in Houston, man, that, that is,

06:02is just team first.

06:04And he's a Nick Casario, D'Amico Ryan's kind of guy.

06:06And he fits that.

06:08This is where leaning so heavily to that can bite you in the ass.

06:12Cause, cause right now you've got plenty of those guys.

06:14You've got those guys, uh, in every position, you know, position room right now.

06:20It's there, there are a couple of needs, man, that, that, uh, I personally would like to

06:24see them address a certain way.

06:26And that this skill positions, one of them from the, uh, Jim Adler, the Texas hammer text

06:31line, um, to us, I believe do yourself a favor and look at the rookie wide receivers and

06:37the developing wide receivers that excel the best.

06:41It's not about twitch.

06:42It's not about speed.

06:43It's about adequate speed and explosiveness.

06:46And more importantly, it's about route running.

06:48You want a polished route runner.

06:50The Ohio state kid would pair well with Nico.

06:54Everyone falls in love with speed and go look at the fastest wide receivers in the draft over

06:59the past 10 years and find me more than 20% of them that make difference.

07:04Todd, Todd, Todd, Todd, Todd, Todd, Todd.

07:07Draft expert.

07:08Chill out, bro.

07:09Chill out.

07:10You want it or you got it.

07:13Well, no, I mean, I just, there's a lot there.

07:15There's a, there is a lot there.

07:16I mean, there's, there's, there's, there's a lot of receivers that are big body receivers

07:21that are polished route runners that are this or that, that, that fell in the league.

07:25A lot of people fell in the league.

07:26Very few people come out and just balls to the wall are, are lights out wide receivers

07:31in the league.

07:32The one thing that you can damn sure hang your hat on at the league or in the league is speed.

07:37The, the one thing that if you're a poly, if like, like, if in there, if you don't have

07:43adequate speed and burst in your stems, NFL DBs are never going to come out of their pedal.

07:49They're going to sit on every route that you have.

07:50Hill is still not a polished route runner.

07:52Right.

07:53Right.

07:53Yeah.

07:53I mean, it's just so, look, I'm not saying, I'm not saying the kid's not going to be great,

07:56but, but it's not, it's not as easy.

07:59Yeah.

07:59And don't, and I'm not saying that you don't have examples.

08:01Yes.

08:01Uh, the kid from the, the Bengals drafted up real early from Washington.

08:06Uh, I forget the John Ross, John Ross.

08:08There's some examples of that, but like last year with the chiefs, like Xavier worthy wasn't

08:14polished, but, but, but he just did things that, that, that there was fear.

08:19Like I, Nico Collins wasn't Paul.

08:21No.

08:21And I'm not.

08:22And, and, and what, what it seems like you're doing is the texture is like, you're putting

08:27it all in the box.

08:28Like, no, there aren't, there aren't guys that there are guys who are, who have speed

08:33that, that didn't amount to nothing.

08:35Like you said, and there are guys who are supposedly polished route runners.

08:39Charles Rogers is one that comes to mind that didn't amount to anything, right?

08:43I'm not saying that it's a guarantee.

08:46You get somebody with speed that it works for me though.

08:49If I am drafting at 25 and I've just spent $16 million on a slot receiver, I'm

08:57I'm trying to know talent that the, the, the talent that you hope that, that really like

09:06gives you a chance to have a big time receiver.

09:08Yeah.

09:09Yeah.

09:09No, look, I mean, I'm, I'd like a polished, I'd like a polished receiver.

09:12I'd like a speed guy.

09:13I'd like them all together.

09:15Yeah.

09:15Give me, give me all great hands, polished, great route runner.

09:18The reality of it is all I'm saying is if they're going to draft a receiver or any skill

09:23player with a premium draft pick on this team built as it is, I would prefer that guy's

09:30weakness to in no way, shape or form mention speed.

09:35If you're going to have five bullets of weaknesses, which they all do, none of them are perfect.

09:40I would prefer a guy that doesn't have that.

09:43That's it.

09:43That, that, that doesn't mention speed and acceleration and twitch that, you know, in his

09:48weaknesses, I would prefer guys we've watched on the tape where linebackers have run him

09:52down or, you know, struggling separation with Western Michigan and Mars.

09:58Like, I think he's going to be a good player.

10:00I just don't think that's.

10:01And by the way, if we're talking about tangible, tangible, I would argue that twitch and speed

10:06are the two most important as it pertains to being successful in the league.

10:09If you, if you don't have either, your ass is in trouble.

10:13You'd be smart as hell.

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