B+
Houston Texans
The Texans won the night they stopped Skattebo from sliding. Grade: B+.
by Powerful ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 8 picks
· 4 steals
· 2 reaches
Thirty-one other rooms let Cam Skattebo slide, and the Texans were the ones holding the card at the 235th overall pick. Highway robbery. They moved the roster forward and banked a B+ for it.
They robbed the room blind at the table, and it lifts the grade on its own. They are betting Nwankpa proves the room right and everyone else wrong. That edge rusher hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.
The roster is better shaped than it was, with running back chief among the fixes.
Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 19 they get a load in the middle at fair value. The biggest hole, addressed.
Emeka Egbuka at the 45th overall pick is money in the bank, a wide receiver taken below his worth. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
They robbed the room for Jalon Walker here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
A reach on Donovan Jackson in Round 3, Pick 12; the board had better options right there. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Steal is underselling it; Colston Loveland at pick No. 84 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Sonny Styles at No. 120 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
A wild overpay on Xavier Nwankpa in pick 164, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
The board fumbled Cam Skattebo all the way to the 235th pick, and they scooped it up. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.