Texans have Vince Wilfork replacement ready in 'younger brother' D.J. Reader

HOUSTON -- Vince Wilfork is usually quiet in the locker room when media is around. But when the veteran heard that Houston Texans' fifth-round pick D.J. Reader said he had been watching Wilfork play football since he was 10 years old, the veteran defensive lineman shook his head and let out a huge laugh.

"He [has] kept that to himself," Wilfork said. "I guess he told you guys that, but god darn that makes me sound old."

Reader and Wilfork have had a good relationship since they met in April after Reader was drafted out of Clemson. In his first NFL season, Reader found a mentor in Wilfork, who said after the Texans’ season-ending loss to the New England Patriots in the divisional round of the…