B
Houston Texans
The Texans won the night they stopped Sanders from sliding. Grade: B.
by Powerful ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 5 steals
· 0 reaches
You build a draft on nights like this. Raheim Sanders had no business being available in the 241st pick, and the Texans did the only sane thing and turned in the card. Nothing here to lose sleep over; call it a B.
They will regret leaving wide receiver for another day if the season turns on it. The roster is better shaped than it was, with running back chief among the fixes. The trenches got the money picks, top to bottom.
Good work on the whole, with wide receiver the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 25 they get a blindside protector at fair value. A clean fit for the roster.
You do not let an offensive lineman like Tyler Booker reach No. 58 and blink. They did not. The roster fit checks out.
Deone Walker in the 89th overall pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
A safety of that caliber at pick No. 126 is the definition of value, full stop. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
They robbed the room for Barrett Carter here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It fills a real need, too.
Raheim Sanders at the 241st pick is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.