Houston Texans Select Jaylin Noel With No. 79 Pick

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00:00Let's stick with the Texans.

00:01We talked earlier, Kaplan and I talked about it earlier in the night.

00:05The Texans have a very deep wide receiver room,

00:08but the Tank Dell injury puts them down a man for at least a year,

00:12a very serious injury.

00:13They've had a couple of wide receivers in this draft.

00:16How do you feel about the Texans building up that side of the ball

00:19after moving on from their offensive coordinator, Bobby Slowick?

00:22Yeah, I like what they did.

00:23Again, you can never have, you know, not enough depth.

00:27I think that's the biggest part.

00:28And you look at John Mechie as well, you know, coming out of Alabama,

00:31high expectations, did have the situation where he did have lymphoma.

00:35He got through that, but really hasn't panned out to be the real number two

00:39outside of Nico Collins, maybe potentially this year.

00:43But you add two big play wide receivers from Iowa State,

00:46Noel more of a slot type of wide receiver.

00:48Higgins was on the outside.

00:50But Noel's a guy that can just play like Tank Dell, can get over the middle,

00:54runs very clean routes, has great hands.

00:57And I like what the Texans have done.

00:59I think there's a few teams offensively and defensively that I think have won

01:03rounds one and number two.

01:05We talked about what Atlanta has done.

01:07I like what Cleveland has done now in the second round in terms of acquiring

01:11a lot of players.

01:12And now the Texans fill multiple needs on the offensive side of the ball.

01:16Yeah, Ben, pretty fascinating.

01:17The teammates from Iowa State, two Cyclones ending up in Houston.

01:21What do you think?

01:22Blue, the only two teammates at the FPS level a season ago to both rank in the top 10 of

01:27receiving yards.

01:28Jalen Knoll, a little bit shy of 1,200.

01:31Jaden Higgins just behind him, 1,183.

01:36In cap, the Texans did not pick last night.

01:39Of course, they traded out of number 25 overall.

01:42They moved to the early portion of the second round.

01:45They get Jaden Higgins.

01:46Later on in round number two, Ariante Urseri, the big offensive tackle from Minnesota.

01:51And here in round number three, Jalen Knoll, the teammate of Higgins in Ames.

01:55They're now teammates again in H-Town.

01:58Of course, a lot of offensive pieces to surround C.J. Stroud with.

02:02How have you evaluated what the Houston Texans have done?

02:04Yeah, so I like Noel as a slot receiver.

02:06So that's where Christian Kirk is.

02:08But Kirk's on the final year of his deal.

02:10Noel is a talented kid.

02:11Now, what a receivers coach told me about him is if you're going to not play him in the

02:15slot, you've got to keep moving him to free him up because physically it's just not big

02:18enough.

02:19Really good.

02:21His teammate is really tall.

02:23Yeah.

02:23And they've added size.

02:25Nico Collins is an absolute stud.

02:27I like their tight end group.

02:28This is a team, if they could protect the quarterback.

02:31Ben, that was the problem.

02:32Yeah.

02:33Offensive line.

02:34And by the way, they moved a bunch of their offensive linemen off the team this year.

02:37They've got to rebuild this thing.

02:38That is the key to their growth is rebuilding this offensive line.

02:41Two consecutive AFC South championships for the Houston Texans.

02:45Of course, each of the two years, D'Amico Ryans has been the head coach in H-Town and

02:50CJ Stroud has been the quarterback plus 115 blue for the Texans to make it three in a row.

02:56They are the favorites currently to win the AFC South in 2025.

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