In Texans news today, Houston Texans owner Bob McNair is making it clear that the franchise has learned its lesson from when they drafted David Carr in the 2002 NFL Draft with their first ever draft pick.
Per Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk, Carr "was beaten up while playing on a bad team and never developed into the kind of player Houston wanted him to be. Now the Texans own the first overall pick again, and owner Bob McNair says his team has learned from its mistakes."
“I think the main thing I look back on is that we should have had a veteran quarterback in there,” McNair stated, via Smith's post on Sunday. “We should have let him start the season and let David learn what it takes to be an NFL quarterback.”
This may suggest that, if the Texans decide to draft their next franchise quarterback in the 2014 NFL Draft, he will sit behind either Ryan Fitzpatrick, Case Keenum or T.J Yates in order to learn the NFL game through observation at first -- rather than the trial by fire which may have derailed David Carr's star from the get-go.