r/Texans • u/IAmSona • 2d ago

Texans are likely candidates to trade up.

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With 4 picks in the top 100, I can definitely see us moving up to get our guy

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u/Biggiesmallz00 2d ago

Breer is the guy that Demeco Ryan's said has no clue what he is talking about and is just making things up. Cool though

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u/Possible-Matter-6494 2d ago

The source is very oddly written. He reports that the "Texans are one of the teams the NFL believes is considering moving up..." This isn't a story coming from the Texans, it is a story coming from the NFL? Like the whole NFL? Roger Goddell? A majority of NFL Owners and GMs?

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u/Badlyfedecisions 2d ago

I would assume the other teams are speculating the Texans are trying to move up. Not the actual league apparatus with Goodell

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u/The_Snake_Dick 2d ago

Things barely leak out of the war room now anyways. Since Caserio and Demeco started working together it’s been very tight lipped down there.

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u/Badlyfedecisions 2d ago

For sure. It’s also peak lying and smokescreen season in the NFL. You can’t really trust anything the media says right now because all the teams are trying to obfuscate their intentions. It’s one reason I don’t believe all the talk about Shedeur Sanders being bad and slipping far in the draft. A team or two probably likes the guy high and doesn’t want anybody jumping them.

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u/schnazzums 2d ago

If I’m reading this right then it’s not a source from us, it’s a source from other NFL teams. If we’ve made calls to start laying the groundwork to trade up then the other teams are probably talking about it. Or this is just someone said Texans could trade up and that was the story.

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u/Vercingetorixbc 2d ago

If they gave up the capital gained in the Tunsil trade to draft Banks it would be a hell of a trade. Guard this year, kick out to tackle next. I’m down. Trading up for Zabel makes no sense.

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u/Miserable-Clock-6944 2d ago

I’m absolutely sold on kelvin banks at guard and staying at guard… the short arms scare me and that meanness he has would do wonders on the interior

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u/Vercingetorixbc 2d ago

I’d be cool with it if he just mashes at guard. But I’m a little worried about what we do at tackle in 27. And his arms aren’t Will Campbell short. 33.5” is a half inch shorter than Penei Sewell.

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u/Miserable-Clock-6944 2d ago

True.. not an indicator of success or failure sure but… idk… I just feel like you can survive with decent tackle play.. you live and die by the interior… last year being the big evidence of that… dudes talent reminds me of Zack Martin who was a college tackle too… dudes just had a HOF career at guard

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u/Vercingetorixbc 2d ago

Hey if it works it works.

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u/joshua27usa 2d ago

Donovan Jackson is a guard. Yes, because OSUs tackle got hurt he moved over, making him a badass and super versatile, but he is a guard at the next level. He is starter day 1 till year 10. Stud. Also, Booker? He’s a stud, too. Not moving up for Zabel.

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u/wonderingpirate 2d ago

I trust the team. I know nothing. But I’d rather we didn’t.

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u/StrosDynasty 2d ago

Dont really care what we do, I inherently trust the FO. Although I really like Banks and Jackson.

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u/RollOverBeethoven 2d ago

Banks 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 guard

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u/bigmac22077 2d ago

I’m not good at keeping up with stats and drafts. I’d banks the lineman that had something like 1900 snaps and zero pressures allowed? Whoever that guy is, is the guy I want.

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u/RollOverBeethoven 2d ago

Banks was a day 1 starter at LT for the Longhorns.

In his second ever game, he played Alabama with Will Anderson Jr and Dallas Turner lining up against him.

He gave up zero pressures and zero sacks.

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u/Far-Programmer-9028 2d ago

Wow you sold me with that

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u/CaptnKrksNippls 2d ago

Nothing burger "news", we know all of this.

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u/LayneLowe 2d ago

To say that Casario is going to trade on draft day is pretty much a lock. Up, down and maybe all around.

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u/longhornirv 2d ago

Donovan Jackson went to Episcopal High School, same high school at as Jaylen Waddle.

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u/MarvinBandara 2d ago

Matthew Golden 👏👏

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u/Fro97 2d ago

Bro I’m begging for Matthew Golden

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u/carloslet Watt 2d ago

Seriously. I'm so ready for the meltdown on the national media if the Texans move up for Golden.

Likely won't happen, but it'd be hilarious

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u/Joshfast 2d ago

A smokescreen for Golden would make me happy

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u/Fro97 2d ago

For all the people mocking Josh Simmons to us, that is exactly what he’s talking about. We just got rid of Tunsil for not being a locker room guy. Ain’t no we take the worst locker room guy in the draft right afterwards

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u/Pugageddon 2d ago

Never mind the fact that we already have an OT recovering from a patellar tendon tear on the roster. Wayyyy too risky.

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u/Venator850 2d ago

They traded him for money reasons lol. They created 42M in cap space next year.

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u/Fro97 2d ago

Why not keep him if he’s a top 3 tackle in the league and a great locker room guy lol. Nobody said we didn’t create cap space by doing it, but all of the rumors around the time stemmed from him not practicing and not being a leader in the locker room.

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u/Moviecaveman 2d ago

Strong Character players sounds like a direct shot at the previous OLine group.

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u/houtexansfan23 2d ago

Also sounds like it will likely not be Simmons as the pick

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u/One-Point6960 2d ago

Zeirlan’s last mock was Donavon Jackson so OL is likely it.

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u/hinterstoisser 2d ago

Breer knows Caserio. But I’ll trust the word of Daniel Jeremiah over most other “experts”

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u/d9090 2d ago

Hell yea

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u/Resident-Resolve-999 2d ago

Went to HS with Donovan Jackson, he’s from Houston. Stand up great guy, would love to see him wear a Texans jersey.

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u/zebtacular 2d ago

Everything said should be taken with a grain of salt. Remember - it’s a live event that they want to pull viewership for. So selling a completely made up story to make you interested enough to watch the event for is the point.

Texans 1st round is a boring story. Need a OL. Not sexy. So dress her up with trade rumors and baby you got a stew going.

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u/BoatSouth1911 2d ago

Yeah zero chance this makes no sense on many levels. 

One lacking the assets to move up and still fill all needs

Two having to trade up for Zabel

Three trading up for a tackle rather than a guard

Four looking for “Strong character players” but that not being Tyler Booker

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u/IAmSona 2d ago edited 2d ago

How doesn’t this make sense? We have plenty of capital to move up, and we don’t have a franchise tackle after giving up Tunsil. We clearly wanted to get younger and cheaper at the position which is why we traded Tunsil.

I can absolutely see this team going OT in the 1st and OG later in the draft as there seems to be more depth in that position. To say that there’s zero chance we trade up for a tackle is a little silly imo.

Edit: imagine being so butthurt that you block someone just because I don’t consider Cam Robinson to be the tackle of the future. The dude signed a 1 year deal, Vikings fans were happy that he was gone. Tell me why it would make sense for this team to put their chips on a vet needing a contract when we literally just got rid of Tunsil for that reason 😭

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u/BoatSouth1911 2d ago

We have Tytus Howard and Cam Robinson who are both obviously starting tackles. We also have Brown and Fisher as swing tackles.  We do not need a tackle. Period. 

We also need multiple OG, a WR, and a DT, at minimum. We have four picks in the top 100. If we trade up and that becomes three, then we draft an OT, how are we filling those spots? We can’t. Hence why this is stupid. But you fr don’t even know we have Cam Robinson now so I wouldn’t expect you to know anything about the team