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As summer hits full-on this week, it can mean only 1 thing: NFL training camps are about to begin.

H-Town is seeing lots of excitement around the refined 2025 Houston Texans. All this thanks to a new offensive coordinator, newly remade offensive line, several key free agent additions and some promising rookie talent.

Bringing in a new offensive coordinator often sets a steep learning curve. Modern NFL playbooks are ousually several inches thick, involve new scheme concepts, diverse blocking schemes, a myriad of route trees, and more information all digested through its own language.

New faces, new playbooks...

Texans last pick has a great shot to make the roster

Round four of my breakdown of every Texans pick from the 2025 NFL Draft takes us to the last pick in this class. I want to highlight a player under-evaluated through the draft process. Luke Lachey fell down draft boards and into the Texans’ lap with the 255th pick partially due to injury and partially due to the mundanity of Iowa’s offense in 2024.

Past Texans 2025 Draft Pick Film Reviews:

Jaylin Noel

Woody Marks

Kyonte Hamilton

Lachey is an intriguing case; his best season was in 2022 where...

What is the one blind spot on the Texans roster?

As we sit here in mid June waiting for the beginning of training camp, most fans take a look at the rosters of their favorite teams and project potential holes or weaknesses. When you have a playoff team that usually ends up being in the singular form. When you are the David Culley Houston Texans all you see are holes. So, it is often in the eye of the beholder or beer holder as it were.

Yet, we cannot deny that all crises are opportunities. Every NFL championship had a...

The Battle Red Blog writers gathered to discuss the signing of RB Nick Chubb

Texans signed Nick Chubb earlier this week and While the impact on each of the current running backs on the roster is still being settled, it’s clear Houston has plans to implement the four-time Pro Bowler in the offense in a meaningful way. Chubb enters an extremely crowded locker room full of veterans and unproven youngsters.

This week, I asked the writers of the Battle Red Blog three questions surrounding the addition of Nick Chubb.

1) What role will Chubb have in the offense?

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WR2 locked in the house?

While all eyes were fixated on Houston Texans latest free agent signee, Nick Chubb, a rookie was busy lighting the mini camp on fire.

For those who came in late, with the 34th overall pick in the draft, the Texans selected Jayden Higgins, wide receiver from Iowa State.

While at Iowa State, Higgins caught 140 passes for 2166 yards and 15 touchdowns. All in just 2 seasons. Prior to that, he played for Eastern Kentucky for 2 years. Before transferring to the FCS school, Higgins amassed 87 catches for 1151 yards and 13 touchdowns.

What...

Potential options for the Texans secondary.

The Houston Texans are almost completely locked in within their secondary, as far as starters go, but one of their top backup cornerbacks just retired.

Ronald Darby was signed earlier this offseason by Houston, and before training camp even begun, he decided to hang the cleats up. Darby would’ve been a solid, veteran presence that could have started if needed.

Now that Darby is gone, Houston has looked outside of the building for answers, working out several players. One of those players is Damon Arnette, who was a first-round pick by the [Las Vegas...

How do we balance entertainment and the product?

“May you live in interesting times.” — Proverb

The above phrase is frequently associated with an old Chinese proverb, but it actually derives its origins from British diplomats in the early 20th century. That phrase has all new meaning today as we embark on the next big story for your Houston Texans. The NFL is a marketing behemoth. You have free agency, the NFL draft, the schedule release, rookie minicamps, OTAs, and team minicamps.

All of these things have been designed to create maximum buzz, but when you step back and look...

Texans safety Jimmie Ward is facing a felony assault charge stemming from an arrest early Thursday morning.

At 5:38 a.m. CT on Thursday morning, Texans safety Jimmie Ward was arrested in Montgomery, Texas and is now facing a felony assault charge, per the Montgomery County jail website. Per ESPN’s DJ Bien-Aime, Ward is still in custody.

Omar Majzoub, the Texans senior director of communications, publicly stated that the team is aware of the report involving War and that they “are gathering more information and have no further comment at this time.”

Ward spent nine seasons with the San Francisco 49ers...

Houston, you have a backup running back....

There are few transactions in Houston Texans history that have made a curmudgeon like me giggle. A short, silly, and gleeful laugh emitted from my soul. Adding four-time Pro Bowl running back Nick Chubb to the Houston Texans offense is a savvy and exhilarating decision.

The excitement can be felt throughout Houston, but the addition will illicit a different emotion in the running back room at NRG Stadium. Each current RB on the Houston Texans’ roster will feel the Texas summer heat from this acquisition. We will break down how Nick Chubb impacts...

We ask, you answer. It’s a whole thing.

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What could Nick Chubb do the for the offense?

Much is made of high powered offenses in the NFL. Usually, the focus for the Texans going from a mediocre offense to a good offense is focused on improvement in pass protection and the performance of the passing game. Those things can certainly be helpful and they will lead to a jump in performance, but few people in the mainstream media focus on the development of the running game.

The Texans had a better season on the ground by most numbers between 2023 and 2024. Joe Mixon became the team’s first...

So, who’s the odd man out in the RB corps?

You know, we as Texans fans owe a lot to the Cleveland Browns over the last few years. They helped the Texans get out from under the disastrous Brock Osweiler contract (not that he ever played for us; that’s just a filthy, spurious lie), they let the Texans trade up in the draft to select noted pariah and former savior of the team Deshaun Watson, they later would trade three first rounders (among other picks) to the Texans, allowing them to draft:

G Kenyon Green
WR John Metchie III
LB...