kicked off his 2016 season with AFC Defensive Player of the Week honors and finished with 6.0 sacks in the postseason.
The Texans starting outside linebacker still arrived for his sixth NFL training camp with a to-do list on how to improve for the upcoming season.
“Every year,” Mercilus said. “Get better individually, make more plays on the quarterback, make more plays on the ball, things like that, and just be more of a student of the game as well.”
Mercilus admits he was “at one point, deer in the headlights” early in his career during camp.