In sports, sometimes the best trades are the ones you don't make.
For the Texans, that definitely turned out to be the case at the 2011 NFL draft.
That loaded draft, in which Houston took three-time Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt, is the subject of an oral history in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated.
In the piece by Ben Baskin, Texans general manager Rick Smith revealed he had a trade set with San Francisco to move up to the No. 7 slot to take LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson.
"There was one guy I fell in love with, who I absolutely wanted on our team, and who I'd prearranged a trade to move up (from 11) and get: Patrick Peterson," Smith told SI.