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J.J. Watt backs ex-Rutgers QB Tom Savage as Houston Texans starter

PISCATAWAY -- Tom Savage's NFL career seems to be developing into the opposite of his college career.

About a week after Houston Texans coach Bill O'Brien said that Savage is the team's starting quarterback in spite of a bold NFL Draft trade, three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt told the Houston Chronicle that he believes in the snakebitten former Rutgers star.

"He's working as hard as he can to be the guy," Watt said. "Everybody around here knows what the goal is, what we have and what we can be.