The Houston Texans took a long, wobbly drunk journey to draft Deshaun Watson. There were plenty of tumbles down curbs and wrong houses walked into along the way. After Matt Schaub’s arm fell off in 2013, the Texans tried nearly every avenue to address the quarterback situation. None of them worked. ‘Intelligent’ veterans. Mid-round draft picks. Expensive free agents. Picking out other teams’ backup quarterbacks. Who knew using a top draft pick and trading up into the first round would be the answer for the Texans’ woes?
The worst, and most desperate, of all the decisions made was giving [NAME REDACTED] a four year, $72 million contract after Brian Hoyer’s five turnover performance in a 30-0 skull crushing loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2015 Wild Card Round of the NFL Playoffs.