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Kamari Lassiter Head Shot
PICK: 23 RND: 1 (HOU)
Kamari Lassiter
CB Georgia
Edgerrin Cooper Head Shot
PICK: 58 RND: 2 (HOU)
Edgerrin Cooper
LB Texas A&M
Leonard Taylor III Head Shot
PICK: 90 RND: 3 (HOU)
Leonard Taylor III
DL Miami (FL)
Malik Mustapha Head Shot
PICK: 123 RND: 4 (HOU)
Malik Mustapha
S Wake Forest
Zion Tupuola-Fetui Head Shot
PICK: 126 RND: 4 (HOU)
Zion Tupuola-Fetui
DE-EDGE Washington
De'Corian Clark Head Shot
PICK: 163 RND: 5 (HOU)
De'Corian Clark
WR UTSA
Carson Steele Head Shot
PICK: 239 RND: 7 (HOU)
Carson Steele
RB UCLA
Aaron Frost Head Shot
PICK: 247 RND: 7 (HOU)
Aaron Frost
OT Arizona State
Draft Grade — Texans
Overall B-
ValueC NeedB TradesB- FutureB-
No fireworks, just a tidy B- for the Texans.

The Texans clearly saw something nobody else did in Zion Tupuola-Fetui, taking him 39 picks ahead of his grade. The board is not convinced. It nets out to a B-, which feels about right.

The quarterback hole is the one line item this class does not answer. Job largely done: running back settled and 6 of 8 of the wish list covered.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.

Pick Analysis
Pick23 Rnd1 Kamari Lassiter
In pick No. 23 they get an island corner. More want than need.
Pick58 Rnd2 Edgerrin Cooper
By-the-book stuff, Edgerrin Cooper at No. 58 squarely in line with his ranking. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Pick90 Rnd3 Leonard Taylor III
A big swing on Leonard Taylor III at pick 90, well ahead of any board in the building. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick123 Rnd4 Malik Mustapha
They liked Malik Mustapha enough to skip the value, taking him in the 123rd pick. A minor itch, scratched.
Pick126 Rnd4 Zion Tupuola-Fetui
Zion Tupuola-Fetui at the 126th overall pick is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Pick163 Rnd5 De'Corian Clark
De'Corian Clark in the Round 5 slot is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Pick239 Rnd7 Carson Steele
They paid up for Carson Steele at pick 239 when waiting would have done the job. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Pick247 Rnd7 Aaron Frost
A clean, defensible pick in Round 7, Pick 27 with a little surplus value in Aaron Frost. The roster fit checks out.