2011 NFL Draft: Houston Texans’ Best Player Available Could Mean Defensive End

March 25, 2011   ·   Jake Langenkamp   ·   Jump to comments

When it comes to the NFL draft, teams always preach a mantra of “best player available.”  Every team has its board based on prospects’ ability, and theoretically it chooses whoever is rated highest, regardless of need.
Obviously, that is not absolutely true, because if it was, teams would have rosters overloaded with some positions and devoid of others.
Despite their rhetoric, NFL teams compile their draft boards with a mixture of ability and need. The idea though, is to have ability favored well above need in that equation.
The reasoning is simple. If a front office backs itself into a corner in which it has to draft a certain position because of glaring need, very often that team will reach for a player and pick him too early. The Houston Texans front office, unfortunately, has been prone to do just this with defensive draft picks.
Take the 2010 draft, for example. The Texans had decided to give Dunta Robinson a one-year audition, placing th...

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