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Houston Texans Free Agency: Wide Receiver Targets

Houston Texans Free Agency: Wide Receiver Targets

Free agent wide receiver targets for the Houston Texans.

The Houston Texans are in need of wide receiver help due to Stefon Diggs hitting free agency, and Tank Dell likely missing the entire 2025 season with a brutal knee injury that was suffered against the Kansas City Chiefs.

It is hard to predict exactly what the Texans offense will be like with new offensive coordinator Nick Caley, but there are a few players available that could potentially fit the new system.

PLAYER ONE: CHRIS GODWIN

Godwin could very well re-sign with the Buccaneers before free agency officially begins on...

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Value of Things: Texans Thought Experiment

Value of Things: Texans Thought Experiment

Would trading an all-pro make the Texans better?

We are in the dog days of winter. It’s cold outside. Spring training has just begun in baseball, so pitchers and catchers are just working. The NBA is on the last throws of its worthless all-star break. The NFL calendar hasn’t flipped yet, so here we are. There is literally nothing good to talk about. It is in these moments where we can run through some fascinating thought experiments.

So, here is a simple question: should the Texans trade Laremy Tunsil? The answer would seem to be simple. The Texans offensive line...

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Houston Texans Draft Prospects: Armand Mambo

Houston Texans Draft Prospects: Armand Mambo

The dream prospect has emerged.

It’s February. The 2024 football season has been quietly nestled away in the recesses of our collective mind. The players are resting their weary bodies. A winter’s breeze twists through the streets, careening through cars and bundled humans alike as fireplaces crackle in tender homes across the country. A season of chilled wonder indeed... for some.

While the football world enters into a blissful slumber, scouts and analysts are hard at work crunching film on the 2025 NFL Draft prospects. THAT’S RIGHT BABY. ‘Tis the season for measuring hand sizes on quarterbacks, analyzing foot speed...

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Texans need more cap space

Texans need more cap space

Nick Caserio has his work cut out for him

The 2025 Houston Texans need to look different than the 2024 Houston Texans. Last year’s version of this roster and coaching staff were perfectly suited to bounce out of the playoffs before winning it all - which is exactly what they did.

In 2025 this team needs to take the next step: AFC Conference Championship game or bust.

The coaching staff, particularly on the offensive side of the ball, needed some help. Hopefully that came in the form of replacing former offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik and some of his staff with...

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Trade, Cut, Extend: Houston Texans’ 2025 offseason edition.

Trade, Cut, Extend: Houston Texans’ 2025 offseason edition.

A game for the Texans’ offseason. This might actually be suitable for work.

Welcome to the Houston Texans’ 2025 offseason. After a season that didn’t quite go the way many hoped, the Texans find themselves facing a lot of personnel decisions. They once again got to the NFL “Elite Eight”, but for the sixth time in franchise history, they didn’t make it to a conference title game. The goal is to get beyond the Divisional Round, and ideally, win the next two games after that.

While we don’t know if the Texans’ front office is actually playing this game, we,...

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Houston Texans News: Texans projected to land WR in mock draft

Houston Texans News: Texans projected to land WR in mock draft

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Five Potential Trade Partners for Laremy Tunsil

Five Potential Trade Partners for Laremy Tunsil

Give us something for our troubles... anything

New offensive coordinator Nick Caley needs to shake up the offensive line. According to Spotrac, the Texans spend the second-most on their offensive linemen in the league. They account for 28.9% of the team’s total cap while being the team’s single biggest liability. Left tackle Laremy Tunsil while being statistically an upper-echelon lineman has not moved the needle on the offense as intended. It’s disgruntling when the highest paid player on the team also leads the team in penalties. While the interior of the offensive line let the entire team down, Tunsil consistently...

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Re-Sign or Walk: Houston Texans Wide Receiver Robert Woods

Re-Sign or Walk: Houston Texans Wide Receiver Robert Woods

Should the Houston Texans re-sign Robert Woods?

Wide receiver Robert Woods signed a two-year deal with the Houston Texans in March of 2023, a time when the team needed a veteran on offense.

In his first year with the Texans, Woods caught 40 passes for 427 yards and one-touchdown, and in his second year, caught only 20 passes for 203 yards and zero touchdowns.

Woods did make some clutch third-down catches throughout his tenure in Houston, but overall his production did not come close to his $15M contract.

The Texans need to bring in a few different wide receivers this...

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Houston Texans News: New Texans OC Caley defines his offense as “player-centric”

Houston Texans News: New Texans OC Caley defines his offense as “player-centric”

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Houston Texans Top Free Agent Running Back Options

Houston Texans Top Free Agent Running Back Options

Potential new faces to pound the rock in Caley’s offense

The Houston Texans run game was analgous with the team’s season; incredibly inconsistent. While much of the blame can be pointed at the big guys up front, the team leaned entirely on Joe Mixon. The Texans won six of the seven games when Mixon ran for over 100 yards. He will be 29 when the season starts in August and shouldn’t be counted on to carry the ball 245 attempts again.

Beyond Mixon, whose contract runs through 2026, Damien Pierce leads a set young options in waiting including Jawhar Jordan...

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Who should the Texans draft 25th overall?

Who should the Texans draft 25th overall?

Player, position, both?

Now that the 2024 NFL season is officially over, Houston Texans fans can turn their attention towards the pending 2025 NFL Draft, starting on April 24th.

As always happens this time of year, the mock drafts are hard charging, trying to fill the void of actual football news that happens in the 2-week doldrums post Super Bowl.

With the Texans bringing in Nick Caley as the new offensive coordinator and elevating Greg Popovich to offensive line coach (from assistant offensive line coach... ) it might seem that Houston will leverage their 1st round draft capital to land...

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Value of Things: Basic Roster Construction

Value of Things: Basic Roster Construction

Is it investment, coaching, or scouting?

Obviously, the ultimate temptation is to watch the Super Bowl and try to gleam lessons from it. We saw two different teams that have been constructed in two different ways. One of them was wildly more successful than the others. Any Houston Texans fan would be forgiven if they suffered shell shock watching the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes try to find time to throw.

Mahomes was sacked six times, but it felt like twice that amount. Yes, he had three touchdowns and some decent passing yards, but most of that came when...

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