Almost time to get back to work...

As fans count the minutes for next week’s NFL Draft, all 32 franchises are preparing for the off-season workout and training programs. OTAs and minicamps (for both rookies and veterans) mark the 1st opportunity the coaching staffs have to teach their 2025 playbooks to the team. And your Houston Texans have a lot of work to do.

With a new offensive coordinator in Nick Calley, a reshuffled offensive line coached by Cole Popovich and a handful of new players, there’s a lot of work to do between now and September 4th. And that’s...

Texans find a falling star in the draft in SB Nation’s annual community mock draft.

The Houston Texans have traded up one pick with the Minnesota Vikings in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft! With the 24th pick in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft, the Houston Texans select...

Kelvin Banks Jr, OT - Texas

This is the steal of the draft if you ask me. The Battle Red Blog writers were tied between Kelvin Banks and fellow Longhorn teammate Matthew Golden, but decided that the offensive line was a bigger need.

We agreed to move up one pick...

Texans find a falling star in the draft in SB Nation’s annual community mock draft.

The Houston Texans have traded up one pick with the Minnesota Vikings in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft! With the 24th pick in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft, the Houston Texans select...

Kelvin Banks Jr, OT - Texas

This is the steal of the draft if you ask me. The Battle Red Blog writers were tied between Kelvin Banks and fellow Longhorn teammate Matthew Golden, but decided that the offensive line was a bigger need.

We agreed to move up one pick...

Evaluating what Houston can receive for their first round pick.

With free agency all but in the books, the big trades completed, and the NFL Draft fast approaching, the complexion of the Houston Texans offseason will come into full view very soon.

The Texans only have seven picks in the 2025 NFL Draft, which leaves them with minimal agility to move throughout the draft. The best way to add draft equity is by trading the first pick; whether that be to move forward or backwards in the draft. There have been 10 trades in the past 10 drafts with the...

Texans find a falling star in the draft in SB Nation’s annual community mock draft.

The Houston Texans have traded up one pick with the Minnesota Vikings in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft! With the 24th pick in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft, the Houston Texans select...

Kelvin Banks Jr, OT - Texas

This is the steal of the draft if you ask me. The Battle Red Blog writers were tied between Kelvin Banks and fellow Longhorn teammate Matthew Golden, but decided that the offensive line was a bigger need.

We agreed to move up one pick...

Texans find a falling star in the draft in SB Nation’s annual community mock draft.

The Houston Texans have traded up one pick with the Minnesota Vikings in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft! With the 24th pick in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft, the Houston Texans select...

Kelvin Banks Jr, OT - Texas

This is the steal of the draft if you ask me. The Battle Red Blog writers were tied between Kelvin Banks and fellow Longhorn teammate Matthew Golden, but decided that the offensive line was a bigger need.

We agreed to move up one pick...

You answered, and here’s how y’all responded.

We finally got back you responses to our question about FanDuel’s over/under for the Houston Texans, so I won’t waste a lot of time and get right to them.

First, we asked you whether you thought the Texans’ win total next year would be over or under the 9.5 games set by FanDuel:

Survey says...!

The overwhelming majority of y’all think the Texans are going to win more than nine games next season. Given that the team managed back-to-back 10 win seasons the last couple of years, this is not a hard ask...

The Texans are rewarding standout safety Jalen Pitre with a new three-year contract extension.

The Texans continue to pay their young core and keep their outstanding secondary intact for the foreseeable future.

Per NFL insider Ian Rapoport, Houston is signing safety Jalen Pitre to a new three-year contract extension that will pay him “roughly” $39 million. The move comes after the Texans gave cornerback Derek Stingley a massive three-year, $90 million contract earlier this offseason.

The Texans originally drafted Pitre out of Baylor in the second round of the 2022 NFL Draft. He was a consensus All-American for the Bears...

Rounding out the live Texans mock daft with four rounds of fun

Part II from my live seven-round mock draft through former Battle Red Blog writer Brett Kollman’s Discord server. This multi-day draft culminated with a full round of draft grades, which this draft received a solid B+ from the other teams. If you want to read the first three picks in-depth breakdown, here’s a link to the article for Rounds 1 - 3. To summarize, here are the picks and trade:

• Round 1, Pick 25: Kelvin Banks Jr., OT - Texas
• Round 2, Pick 49: Josh Conerly...

Texans find a falling star in the draft in SB Nation’s annual community mock draft.

The Houston Texans have traded up one pick with the Minnesota Vikings in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft! With the 24th pick in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft, the Houston Texans select...

Kelvin Banks Jr, OT - Texas

This is the steal of the draft if you ask me. The Battle Red Blog writers were tied between Kelvin Banks and fellow Longhorn teammate Matthew Golden, but decided that the offensive line was a bigger need.

We agreed to move up one pick...

Wide receiver options for the Houston Texans in the 2025 NFL Draft.

The Houston Texans had arguably the best wide receiver trio in the NFL, prior to last season with Nico Collins, Stefon Diggs and Tank Dell.

The expectations for the group as a whole were through the roof, and rightfully so with that much talent.

Nico Collins ended up having a Pro Bowl year, catching 68 passes for 1,006 yards and seven touchdowns in only 12 games. Collins was leading the league in receiving yards for several weeks, until he suffered a hamstring injury against the Buffalo Bills.

The...

Texans find a falling star in the draft in SB Nation’s annual community mock draft.

The Houston Texans have traded up one pick with the Minnesota Vikings in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft! With the 24th pick in the SB Nation Community Mock Draft, the Houston Texans select...

Kelvin Banks Jr, OT - Texas

This is the steal of the draft if you ask me. The Battle Red Blog writers were tied between Kelvin Banks and fellow Longhorn teammate Matthew Golden, but decided that the offensive line was a bigger need.

We agreed to move up one pick...