Houston Texans Are Not Planning On Starting A Rookie Quarterback

For the third time in NFL history, the Houston Texans have the first pick in the NFL draft which starts on May 8. Houston’s current list of quarterbacks including Ryan Fitzpatrick, Case Keenum and T.J. Yates aren’t exactly of the prime stock, and Matt Schaub was recently traded to the Oakland Raiders. Therefore, it wouldn’t be surprising at all if the Texans spent their first-round draft pick on a quarterback.

Quarterbacks Johnny Manziel, Blake Bortles and Teddy Bridgewater sit like cherries on top right now as a logical list of picks the Texans could surely call as their first selection in just a little over a week. Team owner Bob McNair reported to the Houston Chronicle, that it is unlikely, however that if they choose a quarterback, he would be asked to start as a rookie.

In 2002, the Texans selected David Carr as their first-round pick, and started their shiny, new quarterback that season. The result was a stinker of a season, ending in a 4-12 record.

The Texans could also go a different route for the first pick and choose defensive lineman Jadeveon Clowney, heavily rumored to actually get chosen first. Or, what could even be a more dramatic turn of events, with just a little more than a week until the draft, one could speculate that the Texans could trade their No. 1 pick to a needy team for a sweet return.

Yes, I did watch the movie “Draft Day”, so it really would be exciting if the Texans made a last-minute trade, just like Kevin Costner, as the Browns faux manager did in the movie.

For now, it would appear to me that the Texans best quarterback option to start would be Ryan Fitzpatrick, the bearded Harvard graduate who started with the NFL in 2005 with St. Louis, and has bounced around from team to team ever since. Fitzpatrick ended 2013 as a Titan, covering for the injured Jake Locker with not too shabby of a stat line to boast for a partial season.

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