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Jaelen Strong tweets he's 20 pounds lighter than during rookie minicamp

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  • Tania Ganguli, ESPN Staff Writer Close
    • Previously covered Texans for Houston Chronicle and Jaguars for Florida Times-Union
    • Northwestern University graduate
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We in the Houston Texans media corps tried all through the offseason program to have head coach Bill O'Brien say something positive about a rookie's conditioning.

He never bit.

Rather, he pointed out repeatedly that nearly all of them were out of shape, mostly because they hadn't been training for football in the months prior to the draft.