It was a wild yet typical Nick Caserio NFL Draft weekend. Houston completed seven trades throughout the draft and added nine prospects to form the Texans 2025 draft class. None of which answered the Texans biggest positional need heading into the draft: center and guard. Houston addressed the position via free agency, but those players as mentioned by several of the writers below are debatably mediocre at best. I asked the writers to air their frustration and provide their thoughts on why Nick Caserio didnt address the position in the draft: The Texans didnt draft a single interior offensive lineman in the 2025 NFLDraft. How concerned are you about protecting Stroud this next season?VBallRetired:Im in wait and see mode. I have to hope they know something we dont. Either they like the internal options more than we do or didnt like the options in the draft Dalton Keene Jersey. Crying over it wont do any good. My fear is that neglecting it will force a Laremy Tunsil type desperation move like in 2019. Its definitely not a good look but they get paid to do this and I dont. l4blitzer:One might argue that even if Houston brought in 2-3 IOL prospects, the line might not be any more effective this year than last. That Houston only drafted ONE OL prospect period, and that an OT, indicates that Houston is likely okay with the various depth signings they made in free agency, as well as maintaining faith in incumbent Juice Scruggs and Jarrett Patterson to hold down the interior. Likely they will keep Howard at guardand they figure that Cam Robinson, Blake Fisher and maybe Aireontae Ersery can hold down the tackle spots. Maybe they hope that something emerges from the UDFA pool. If nothing else, hopefully Stroud was working on his running abilities like he said he would after the Division Round loss at Kansas L. As I posted on Twitter/X, I thought Nick Caserio was going to address offensive line early and often, but instead drafted more QBs than guards or centers. If you told me the Houston Texans would draft more quarterbacks than interior offensive lineman in the NFL Draft I'd tell you to see your local physician Kenneth LevyApril 26, 2025Ersery is a true tackle who I doubt can transition to guard due to his 66 frame. I dont trust Jarrett Patterson to develop into a starting center nor has Juice Scruggs shown anything close to his second round selection. While Best Player Available is a fine strategy, Houston had two critical needs: protect C Woody Marks Jersey. J. Stroud and add weapons around C. J. Stroud. They added weapons, sure.. but Stroud wont have time to throw to them if he is running for his life. If this season goes wrong and Stroud is the most sacked QB in the league, the only person you can point to is Caserio for not doing his job FizzyJoe:Very confused by it. I can understand trading out of the first round, and I can understand taking receivers and a tackle in the second round, but to pass up on ALL of the options on day three? I know that there was a lot of controversy surrounding some of the guards and tackles available in day three, but I dont understand refusing to take a chance on even one of them when your current starters are Laken Tomlinson and Juice Scruggs/Tytus is a possibility free agent signing Ed Ingram becomes the starting guard, but since he got benched in the middle of the season last year, I have my doubts. Moving Howard to guard will require Trent Brown/Blake Fisher/Aireontae Ersery to be starting-caliber at RT, which is a bet Im honestly afraid to take. I personally prefer trying to draft players at the position theyve played most of their lives instead of bouncing tackled and centers around the line like musical chairs, but Im no expert. Maybe Jaylin Smith will provide more value to the team than Marcus Mbow or Miles Frazier, but as of right now, I sincerely doubt. H:Of course Im concerned. If you arent at least a little concerned, Id think you werent paying all that close attention to the Texans last , I try to take a Socratic approach to it. The only thing I know for sure is that I know nothing.. at least as far as the Texans are concerned. At the moment, theres still a bit of goodwill built up - I think - between Texans fans and the DeMeco Ryans/Nick Caserio regime, so Im way more willing to see where this goes. They know more about the team than I do, than pretty much anyone that isnt directly employed by the team does. Maybe Nick Caley and Cole Popovich sees something in the Scruggs/Patterson/Howard combination that Slowik and Strausser missed last year. Lord knows it wouldnt be a stretch of the imagination to think those two last year might not have gotten the full potential out of those players that they could have. The thing I keep coming back to with Scruggs/Patterson is that you could see flashes of potential in their rookie years that would lead you to believe that they could be the answer that just werent there last year. So it if was just bad coaching , then this line might be way better off than we might think Russ Yeast Jersey. Either that or Nick Caley subscribes to the Mike Martz school of offensive coordinating and theyre going to let Stroud get annihilated to run a new Greatest Show On Turf knock off, in which case everybody needs to be fired immediately. But again, all I know is I know nothing, but this will be the first test of the teams newly re-established goodwill. They better know what theyre doing.