B-
Houston Texans
No fireworks, just a tidy B- for the Texans.
by RealTexanfan ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 8 picks
· 2 steals
· 3 reaches
The Texans torched the value chart for Trey Moore, taking him 43 spots sooner than anyone had him slotted. The bottom line is a respectable B-.
That Orange pick is the receipt they will wave around later. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped quarterback, which is a strange place to end up.
Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 28 they get a mismatch in the passing game, and a steal at that.
A premium they did not need to pay, D'Angelo Ponds a notch or two before his time. It adds depth where they could use a little.
Jacob Rodriguez in the Round 2 slot is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Mike Washington Jr. in the 69th overall pick is fair value, right on his grade. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Domonique Orange at slot 106 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Trey Moore at pick No. 141 is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
A real head-scratcher, Pat Coogan in pick 167 is miles ahead of his ranking. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
No drama and no debate, Eli Heidenreich went about where he belonged in Round 7, Pick 27. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.