B
Houston Texans
The Texans won the night they stopped Gordon II from sliding. Grade: B.
by Powerful ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 5 steals
· 1 reaches
Thirty-one other rooms let Ollie Gordon II slide, and the Texans were the ones holding the card at the 241st overall pick. Highway robbery.
If Capehart pans out, nobody remembers the price. If not, this is the pick they hear about. The wide receiver hole is the one line item this class does not answer.
Job largely done: running back settled and 3 of 8 of the wish list covered. The weekend tilted hard toward the defense.
Good work on the whole, with wide receiver the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 25 they get a disruptive interior force at a price that makes it sweeter. The biggest hole, addressed.
A quiet steal in the 58th overall pick: Tyler Warren for less than the market said. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Xavier Watts at the 89th pick is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
DeMonte Capehart at No. 126 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Sonny Styles in the Round 5 slot is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. They added to a strength when a need was still open elsewhere.
Ollie Gordon II in slot 241 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.