You can lose a draft before you make a pick. The Texans did it at the trade table, overpaying to chase players the board did not price nearly as high.

That wide receiver hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall. Pegues at that cost is the sort of edge that compounds over a roster.

They are betting Fairchild proves the room right and everyone else wrong. The roster is better shaped than it was, with running back chief among the fixes.

It nets out as a middle-of-the-pack haul that neither helps nor hurts much.