Last offseason, Nick Caserio didn’t fully rebuild. Instead he signed dozens of veteran on short contracts, to hit doubles and singles—with only Kamu Gruiger-Hill, Maliek Collins, and Tavierre Thomas getting on base—restructured contracts to create dead money for last season to sign more of said players, traded up in the draft multiple times, tossed a short undrafted free agent net, and didn’t sign younger players with some allure of future potential. Has beens. Never weres. Caserio thought with more veteran help the Texans could be competent, creating some allure of a culture, that would open the door for the next good Texans team.