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• Houston Texans vs. Minnesota Vikings: Players to Watch

Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Players to keep your eye on throughout Houston’s first preseason game against the Minnesota Vikings. The Houston Texans are getting ready for their first in-game action since losing to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional Round of the playoffs — and it’s coming against the Vikings in Minnesota, marking the first preseason game of the 2025 season. While the st...2025
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• Houston Texans Rosterology Before Vikings Preseason Game

Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Predicting the Houston Texans 53-man roster. The first week of training camp was a doozy. The offensive line woes continued, the injuries piled up, but the Texans approach their first preseason game on Saturday. At practice this past week, several rookies have sustained severe injuries. Seventh-rounder Kyonte Hamilton is out for four months with a fractured ankle...2025
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• Houston Texans: Lessons Learned from 2023 and 2024

Photo by Logan Bowles/Getty Images What changes have the Texans made to make this year better than the last? Entering the 2025 NFL season, the Houston Texans find themselves right in the middle of a golden era. Defined by quarterback C.J. Stroud and head coach DeMeco Ryans, this era of Texans football has been a hallmark of success, a particularly impressive feat considering the amount of ...2025
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• Top underdogs to watch at Houston Texans Training Camp

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images Root, root, root for the underdog... if they don’t make the team it’s a shame! We are just weeks away from Houston Texans training camp kicking off and the buzz around the team is a quiet murmur. This preseason lacks the oomph, fireworks, and attention as last year, but the expectations are equally as high. Nothing is more fun during training camp than r...2025
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• Predicting Houston Texans 53-man Roster: Rosterology Pre-Traning Camp

Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images First look at who is in line to make the Houston Texans roster in 2025 We. Are. Back. The longest active article series here at Battle Red Blog enters its EIGHTH year of publication. The Texans are several weeks away from training camp and the 90-man roster is all but finalized. The crafting of an NFL Roster has become more of a science than an art. With emerge...2025
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• Jayden Higgins Film Review: Houston Texans Draft Class

Reese Strickland-Imagn Images Reviewing rookie Jayden Higgins senior year film Few things are as unpredictable as a Houston Texans draft. The Texans came into the draft with seven pick and only stayed put for one of those selections. The first of those picks was Jayden Higgins the wide receiver from Iowa State. He is the subject of our sixth film analysis of the rookie class. The second r...2025
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• Houston Texans Draft Film Analysis: Jaylin Smith

Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images Texans newest CB is a mixed bag of tenacity, agility, and fragility If the Houston Texans are assembling the Avengers in their secondary, their newest addition packs the same punch and brings the same mentality to the team as the current cast. The small, hard-nosed defensive back played just about every position on USC’ secondary over his four seasons. In t...2025
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• Value of Things: Finding the Hole

Photo by Brooke Sutton/Getty Images What is the one blind spot on the Texans roster? As we sit here in mid June waiting for the beginning of training camp, most fans take a look at the rosters of their favorite teams and project potential holes or weaknesses. When you have a playoff team that usually ends up being in the singular form. When you are the David Culley Houston Texans all you s...2025
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• Defensive Depth Dilemma: Navigating Ronald Darby’s Retirement

Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images Potential options for the Texans secondary. The Houston Texans are almost completely locked in within their secondary, as far as starters go, but one of their top backup cornerbacks just retired. Ronald Darby was signed earlier this offseason by Houston, and before training camp even begun, he decided to hang the cleats up. Darby would’ve been a solid, ve...2025
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• Poll: Which Houston Texans position group still needs help?

Photo by Brooke Sutton/Getty Images 1 guess should be obvious We’ve made it past the initial free agency surge and the 2025 NFL Draft. At this stage, the 2025 depth chart is coming into focus. It’s easy to say the roster is built for this season with a few minor adjustments still coming. Teams don’t usually make big, blockbuster trades at this point in the year. However, June has been kn...2025
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• Texans First Five Draft Picks Played in Senior Bowl

Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images Nick Caserio is nothing but consistent The annual draft pool consists of around 450 athletes from across the country. The players with four or five-star ratings coming out of high school and played in the SEC or BIG10 are well documented. However, art of the NFL Draft is finding budding talent from lesser-known programs who can develop into the next great athlete. ...2025
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• ESPN’s take on Cardinals’ 2025 NFL Draft needs

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Here is what ESPN writers claim to be the Cardinals’ biggest need in the draft and what they believe Monti Ossenfort will do come draft day. Arizona Cardinals Picks: Nos. 16, 47, 78, 115, 152, 225 The Cardinals absolutely MUST use a pick in the first three rounds on ____. A wide receiver. Arizona has a surefire WR1 in Marvin Harrison Jr. and a No. 2 in Micha...2025
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"179: Jaylin Smith, CB, USC Another reason for Cleveland’s defensive regression in 2024 beyond the lack of a post-Za’Darius Smith EDGE buddy for Myles Garrett was the dropoff in play in the cornerback room."

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"27) DL Shemar Turner (Texas A&M) CB Will Lee III (Texas A&M) iOL Ar’maj Reed-Adams (Texas A&M) RB Le’Veon Moss (Texas A&M) S Kamari Ramsey (USC) iOL Jonah Monheim (USC) RB Woody Marks (USC) CB Jaylin Smith (USC) iOL Emmanuel Pregnon (USC) Cornerback Jaylin Smith has declared for the draft and may not play in the bowl game."

• Houston Texans vs. Minnesota Vikings: Players to Watch
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• Houston Texans: Lessons Learned from 2023 and 2024
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• Jayden Higgins Film Review: Houston Texans Draft Class
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• Houston Texans Rookie Film Analysis: Kyonte Hamilton

Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Texans seventh rounder senior year film will inspire greatness Seventh round picks are the scratch-off lottery tickets of the NFL. Turning one into a rotational, or even contributing member of a football team is exceptionally rare. This draft, the Houston Texans are hoping Kyonte Hamilton can scratch and claw his way to a role on this deep Texans defense. The ...2025
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• Reaches vs value picks in the 2025 draft- how did the Broncos do?

Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images Draft slot vs consensus big board by team for the whole 2025 draft The consensus big board from the 2025 draft can be found here- the rankings are 1-300. NextGen stats and AWS have their DRAFTIQ score which I wrote quite a bit about prior to the draft. Their rankings go from 50-100. NFL.com has their draft grades which range from 5.50-8.0 (an odd scale to...2025
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• Mapping Every Houston Texans Trade in the 2025 NFL Draft

[Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images Nick Caserio is a mad man. Just depends on if he’s a genius or not. It’s mind-numbingly demoralizing to consider the eight mock drafts I posted on this site were essentially null-and-void from the get-go. After selecting three players correctly last year, I came home with only accurately picking Jayden Higgins to be a Houston Texan in my three-round...2025
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• Poll: Which 2025 Houston Texans draft pick excites you the most?

Tork Mason / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Hint: It wasn’t a center or guard cause they didn't pick one... For all the trading, shuffling up/down and other “excitement” out of the Houston Texans draft room, it’s hard to tell if they hit a home run in any of the rounds. Well, they definitely didn’t in the 1st, since general manager Nick Caserio traded back when the time came. However, ...2025
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• Value of Things: Way too early Texans draft grades

Photo by Larry Radloff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It’s actually three grades and not one I made fun of people who do this and here I am doing it. I am grading the Houston Texans draft less than 48 hours after it was completed. I point this out because we must acknowledge the silliness of it all. At the end of the day, this is simply a way to get clicks in our business and this is no ...2025
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• Houston Texans Draft CB Jaylin Smith 97th Overall

Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images The Texans take a defensive back out of USC. It looks like Nick Caserio is cooking tonight, he’s got another trade in the third round! The Texans are sending picks #102 and #142 to the Jacksonville Jaguars for picks #102 and #142 #Jaguars-#Texans trade details. https://t.co/Lb80F8yNci— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) April 26, 2025 And with the 97th over...2025
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• Top 300 draft prospects for 2025

Derrick Harmon could be available to the Rams at #26 | Photo by Michael Miller/ISI Photos/Getty Images After three month’s of investigation: The final edition With the NFL Draft just two days away, fans are ready for the awaited announcement, “The Los Angeles Rams are on clock.” At this time of the year, story lines are bigger and mock drafts rule the day. Prospects are offered up, with ca...2025
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• Draft prospects I’d love to see the Rams land

Photo by Brooke Sutton/Getty Images These are the standouts that have caught my eye over the draft process and would be strong fits with Rams We are mere days away from the 2025 NFL Draft. These are my favorite prospects after months of review and anticipation, both from an overall perspective and in terms of fit for the Los Angeles Rams. Let’s take a look by position with a brief overview...2025
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• Doug Farrar’s 7-round mock draft for the Browns move the team forward from the Deshaun Watson failure

Bob Self/USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK The draft is really the Browns’ best hope of righting the ship. “We took a big swing and miss with Deshaun. We thought we had the quarterback, we didn’t, and we gave up a lot of draft picks to get him. So we’ve got to dig ourselves out of that hole. [The trade] was an entire organization decision… so hold us accountable.” Congratulations to ...2025
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• Vikings Links: Who Is Your Combine Crush?

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Nick Emmanwori and Maxwell Hairston would look good in purple no? The NFL Combine is underway and there have been some awesome testing numbers. The obvious studs were Nick Emmanwori, Shemar Stewart, James Pierce Shemar Stewart is a DE prospect in the 2025 draft class. He scored an unofficial 9.99 #RAS out of a possible 10.00. This ranked 3 out of 1802...2025
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• Texans Fail to Address Interior Offensive Line in NFL Draft

Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images Battle Red Blog writers collectively frustrated but trusting in Caserio 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 ...2025
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• NFL Draft 2025, Day 2 recap: Seahawks, John Schneider finally draft a quarterback

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images John Schneider traded up for a safety to start the night and ended Day 2 with a quarterback. Two days down, one to go in the 2025 NFL Draft. If the Seattle Seahawks’ first round was decidedly (if not pleasantly) tame by taking North Dakota State offensive lineman Grey Zabel at No. 18 overall, their second- and third-round decisions were far more eventful....2025
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• Rams top-300 fits big board: Ranking the best fits in 2025 NFL Draft

Photo by John Korduner/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Ranking the best Rams fits in the 2025 NFL Draft from 1-300. The NFL Draft is just over a week away and at this point in the process, teams like the Los Angeles Rams are putting together the final touches to their big boards. It’s almost time to trust your scouting process and hope that everything goes well on the weekend of April 24...2025
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• Doug Farrar’s 7-round mock draft for the Browns move the team forward from the Deshaun Watson failure
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• Sean McVay feeling the need for speed at the Senior Bowl?

Issac TeSlaa shows off his hands | Photo by Derick E. Hingle/Getty Images Identifying the fastest players at the Senior Bowl workouts As Los Angeles Head coach Sean McVay contemplates making the offense “…more versatile…” this offseason, college showcase games are offering glimpses into possible prospects that would be the catalyst for those changes. This afternoon, the 2025 Senior Bowl ...2025
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• Bucs Hosting Yet Another CB On An Official 30 Visit

The Bucs continue to bring in players for official 30 visits – and one position has been targeted the most so far. That would be the cornerback position where Tampa Bay has hosted six cornerbacks, including USC's Jaylin Smith, according to The USC CB Jaylin Smith Photo by: USA TodayDraft Network's Ryan Fowler. Fowler...2025
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• Rams bowl season preview: Players to watch from every college bowl game

Robert Goddin-Imagn Images An ultimate Rams guide to College Bowl Season. Which players should you watch before the draft? The Los Angeles Rams are still in playoff contention, but the NFL draft process is getting started with bowl games already beginning. With over 40 games to be played over the next month, there will be plenty to watch in preparation for the NFL Draft. From the college f...2024
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• Final consensus NFL Draft rankings — and Friday’s hits and misses

Photo by Larry Radloff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Let’s take a final look at our consensus draft rankings — and which teams might have made mistakes on Friday. Starting on Monday, we brought you our annual consensus draft prospect ranking based on lists from five sources: ESPN, Pro Football Focus, CBS Sports, Pro Football Network and Draftek. On Friday, we updated that list followin...2025
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• NFL Draft 2025, Day 2 recap: Seahawks, John Schneider finally draft a quarterback
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• 2025 NFL Draft: All 329 players invited to the NFL Scouting Combine

Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images A full list of all 329 players invited to the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine. The 2025 NFL Scouting Combine kicks off this week as we’ll see the top prospects in this year's draft class hit the field to take part in some on-the-field workouts, get their height/weight, meet with teams, and have their ever-important physicals done. This is a major part of the ...2025
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• 2025 NFL Scouting Combine: Joe Schoen availability, TV and workout schedule, more

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Everything you need to know to be ready for Indy is right here The NFL world will descend upon Indianapolis this week for the annual NFL Scouting Combine. Here is the schedule of events and everything else you need to know. Joe Schoen will kick things off Players don’t get on the field for televised workouts until Thursday, but the action starts bright an...2025
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• Houston Texans vs. Minnesota Vikings: Players to Watch
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• Houston Texans 2025 Draft: Grades For Each Pick

Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images How did the Texans 2025 draft class grade out? Like a flash, the 2025 NFL Draft has come and gone. Chock full of trades, charades, and busted parlays, this draft will go down as being one of the weirdest in recent history. Only two quarterbacks, Cam Ward and Jaxson Dart, were taken in the first round. Offensive and defensive linemen, the “hog...2025
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• Final 2025 NFL Draft grades for all 32 teams

Photo by Perry Knotts/Getty Images Final grades for the 2025 NFL Draft for every team, with only one A+ When you write about the NFL Draft you’ve heard it all before: “Grading a draft is dumb,” We don’t know how these guys will be for three years,” and “Y’all were so wrong about [insert player here].” We get it. The draft in an imprecise science at best, and so much of evaluating a class i...2025
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• 2025 NFL Draft: What do the Cardinals need the most?

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Arizona Cardinals’ GM Monti Ossenfort has indicated that he believes the roster, as it is currently constructed, is good to go. Kudos to Monti and his staff for creating a fresh kind of buzz for the Cardinals in the manner in which he handled the re-signing of the team’s key free agents and the signing of impactful unrestricted free agents. While it...2025
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• Minnesota Vikings News and Links: The QB Plan Is Still Being Processed

Photo by Jack Gorman/Getty Images We all expect JJ McCarthy do be the QBOTF though The NFL Combine is underway. Today they have the medicals, team interviews, and pre-exam for the defensive linemen, linebackers, and dudes that put their foot on the ball. Here is a list of the invites ... NFL combine: Full list of draft prospects invited to 2025 scouting event Here are a few players that I...2025
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