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Houston Texans
Larceny in the Round 7 slot lands the Texans a B, Tuten and all.
by Powerful ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 5 steals
· 0 reaches
When a board-topper like Bhayshul Tuten slides to Round 7, Pick 25, you do not overthink it, and the Texans did not. They moved the roster forward and banked a B for it.
They punted on edge rusher, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest. They went 5 of 8 on their needs, which is most of what a draft is for. They trusted the board more than the depth chart.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 25 they get a pocket-collapsing interior rusher at fair value. The biggest hole, addressed.
A tight end of that caliber at pick No. 58 is the definition of value, full stop. A need, and now a little less of one.
A top-tier wide receiver at a bargain, Isaiah Bond in the 89th pick, plain and simple. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Luke Kandra in pick 126 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Lathan Ransom at Round 5, Pick 28 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Taking Bhayshul Tuten in the 241st overall pick is close to grand larceny; a running back that good had no business lasting this long. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.