TEXANS MOCK DRAFT GRADE D+

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Houston Texans

The Texans robbed the room for Coleman. Final grade: D+.

by Powerful · 2024 NFL Draft · 10 picks · 4 steals · 2 reaches
Value B
Need B+
Trades F
Future B-

Somebody took the Texans to the cleaners. The deals they made bled real value, and the whole class wears it. The math is unkind, and the D+ follows.

It is not that Smith is a bad player; it is that the Texans had louder needs to answer first. Every board in the league had Tupuola-Fetui lower, and that gap is the story. Leaving interior defensive lineman unaddressed is the roster risk they will have to answer for in the fall.

On value alone, Coleman makes the weekend a net positive.

Add it up and it is a weekend the front office will hope everyone forgets, interior defensive lineman very much included.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.27 · Pick 27 · Chop Robinson · DE-EDGE · rank 37
In No. 27 they get a disruptor off the edge, though they paid up to get him. The biggest hole, addressed.
R2.21 · Pick 53 · Keon Coleman · WR · rank 28
Circle this one: Keon Coleman at the Round 2 slot is a fall that decides a draft. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R3.25 · Pick 88 · Trey Benson · RB · rank 80
Trey Benson in the 88th overall pick is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R3.26 · Pick 89 · Maason Smith · DT-EDGE · rank 84
The needs board was loud and they turned it down, spending the 89th pick on Maason Smith with interior defensive lineman, quarterback and other spots unsolved.
R3.27 · Pick 90 · Malachi Corley · WR · rank 85
Malachi Corley at pick No. 90 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R4.21 · Pick 121 · Dominick Puni · OT · rank 101
Dominick Puni in pick 121 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It fills a real need, too.
R4.27 · Pick 127 · Jaden Hicks · S · rank 126
A straight-up fair deal on Jaden Hicks at pick 127, value and slot in agreement. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
R5.2 · Pick 138 · Nehemiah Pritchett · CB · rank 131
They did well to land Nehemiah Pritchett in No. 138, just ahead of his grade. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
R5.22 · Pick 158 · Zion Tupuola-Fetui · DE-EDGE · rank 181
A real head-scratcher, Zion Tupuola-Fetui in the 158th pick is miles ahead of his ranking. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R6.24 · Pick 199 · Michael Barrett · LB · rank 191
Michael Barrett is a better player than slot 199 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
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