Where have we heard that before?

This time last year, we all thought Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud had so many wide receivers to choose from it was insane. Then, as always seems to happen with the Texans, dominoes fell, players got hurt and highlight reel moments were few and far between.

Remember thinking J.J. Watt and Jadeveon Clowney were going to devastate the opposition? How about Andre Johnson, DeAndre Hopkins and (insert revolving door of WR3s)?

The 2024 edition of that was Nico Collins, Stefon Diggs and Tank Dell.

Ugh.

Welcome to the Houston Texans 2025 offseason, where hope...

How did the Texans 2025 draft class grade out?

Like a flash, the 2025 NFL Draft has come and gone. Chock full of trades, charades, and busted parlays, this draft will go down as being one of the weirdest in recent history. Only two quarterbacks, Cam Ward and Jaxson Dart, were taken in the first round. Offensive and defensive linemen, the “hog mollies,” came off the board early, with five taken in the top ten picks and eleven taken in the top twenty. Late-round sleepers going went high, blue-chip players fell into the third round; you name it, it probably...

Nick Caserio is a mad man. Just depends on if he’s a genius or not.

It’s mind-numbingly demoralizing to consider the eight mock drafts I posted on this site were essentially null-and-void from the get-go. After selecting three players correctly last year, I came home with only accurately picking Jayden Higgins to be a Houston Texan in my three-round mock draft in late January.

Every single pick in the Houston Texans 2025 NFL Draft was a result of a trade. The only non-draft day trade pick was Jaylin Noel as the Texans acquired the 79th pick from the Dolphins...

The 2025 Draft is over. One last revisit before we move forward in the NFL year.

The Day After the Day After...when the raw, immediate emotions from the aftermath of a game diminish into the realm of clarity and the proverbial (or literal) hangover no longer haunts the mind. With that, a review of the 2025 NFL Draft

The “Patriots Way” draft strategy, or massive Texans scrambling?: Seeing the Texans trade out of the 1st round doesn’t seem all that radical on the surface. Caserio effectively did that last year before the draft and when under the Kraft/Belichick regime, he...

Battle Red Blog writers collectively frustrated but trusting in Caserio

It was a wild — yet typical — Nick Caserio NFL Draft weekend. Houston completed seven trades throughout the draft and added nine prospects to form the Texans’ 2025 draft class. None of which answered the Texans biggest positional need heading into the draft: center and guard. Houston “addressed” the position via free agency, but those players as mentioned by several of the writers below are debatably mediocre at best.

I asked the writers to air their frustration and provide their thoughts on why Nick Caserio didn’t address the position...

Robert Woods has officially moved on! What does that mean for the Texans?

Even though the 2025 NFL Draft has come and gone, free agency persists! Former Houston Texans, free agent wide Robert Woods has just signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers on a one-year $2 million deal, per Ian Rapoport:

Woods, once a star for the prolific Los Angeles Rams offenses of the early Sean McVay era, has now turned journeyman wide receiver. He spent the last two seasons with Houston on a two-year $15.25 million contract and largely in a reserve role. His career stats in Houston are:

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Hint: It wasn’t a center or guard cause they didn't pick one...

For all the trading, shuffling up/down and other “excitement” out of the Houston Texans draft room, it’s hard to tell if they hit a home run in any of the rounds. Well, they definitely didn’t in the 1st, since general manager Nick Caserio traded back when the time came. However, lots of reasons exist to get excited about this draft class, even if none of them play interior offensive line.

NFL.com

Grade: A-

Round 2 (No. 34): WR Jayden Higgins, Iowa State

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It’s actually three grades and not one

I made fun of people who do this and here I am doing it. I am grading the Houston Texans draft less than 48 hours after it was completed. I point this out because we must acknowledge the silliness of it all. At the end of the day, this is simply a way to get clicks in our business and this is no different. Maybe I could throw in some Shedeur Sanders commentary just to get a spike for the site.

However, I do promise to do things a little more thoughtfully than...

The Iowa tight end might be a more willing blocker

Mercifully the 2025 NFL draft is over. The Texans didn’t have Mr. Irrelevant, but they were pretty darn close. Hopes were high that the Texans would address their interior offensive line at some point in the draft proceedings, but apparently Nick Caserio and company felt they had bigger fish to fry. The Texans closed out their draft by selecting tight end Luke Lachey out of Iowa.

The senior tight end played five seasons at Iowa and added 28 receptions and 231 yards in 2024. Obviously, Iowa is not known as...

Just because the draft is over doesn’t mean the search for talent has ended.

The NFL Draft has ended, but that doesn’t mean you, or we, can rest easy just yet. There are a whole lot of players who did not get drafted and there are diamonds in the rough to be had.

I don’t think we have to remind y’all about the best UDFA find in franchise history, one Sir Arian Foster, to make that point. And while they can’t all be winners, the possibility is out there.

If you need a refresher, here’s who the Texans took in...

Texans add depth on the defensive line

The three day event is almost over. The Texans have one more selection on the books after this one. Nick Caserio has made a total of six trades where he has moved up, down, and maybe even sideways. Every draft is controversial in nature and this one might be one of the more controversial. With their first seventh round selection, the Texans selected defensive tackle Kyonte Hamilton from New Jersey Rutgers.

There wasn’t much data on his performance on his NFL.com prospect profile, but we are sure he did a hell of a...

The Texans bring in competition for Davis Mills

The Texans moved again. They traded picks 216 and 241 to move up to 197. With the pick they decided to take Florida quarterback Graham Mertz. The trade leaves them with one seventh round pick remaining. A fanbase begging for inside offensive line play apparently is not going to get it before the 7th round.

As a modern college football player, Mertz has six seasons to his credit between Wisconsin and Florida. He spent the last season at Florida and only played in five games due to a torn ACL. Presumably, he...