The Texans had one of the worst offensive lines in football. They were a mediocre run blocking team, bloated and inflated by Deshaun Watson’s ability to reanimate cold flabby flesh, that averaged 4.0 yards a carry, and ranked 21st in run offense DVOA. The pass blocking is what sunk this offense. Twelve gnarled offensive linemen were mangled around into seven different starting lineup combinations that combined to allow 54 sacks, had an adjusted sack rate of 9.2% (30th), and ranked last in pressure rate at 37.9%.
Coming into this offseason with $63,802,367 in cap space after cutting Brian Cushing, the assumption was Houston would invest the majority of their funds to repair the team’s largest weakness, its offensive line.