2018 Houston Texans Training Camp: What’s The Most Competitive Position Battle?

Next week http://www.thetexansfootballauthentic.com/lamar-miller-jersey-authentic , the Texans will start practicing out in West Virginia to prepare for the 2018 NFL season. They’ll be running around in shorts. The roster invitees with slim chances will be splattering each other across the field. Football will kind of sort of be back until it’s actually back during the second week of September. My favorite parts of training camp are the position battles and breakout players. We know the veterans who will continue to produce, but training camp is beneficial for those trying to leap into a starting spot, or nail down their same job, or watch the light bulb flicker and stay illuminated for a young guy who finally gets it. In this mold, Bleacher Report posted an article regarding each team’s most wide open training camp battle. This is what they had to say about the Texans:As someone who has written like 100,000 words on the Texans’ offensive line, I disagree with this claim. I feel like Juli’en Davenport will go into training camp as the starting left tackle and leave as the starting left tackle, especially if he got strong this past offseason. If his biceps are plumper, his quadriceps carved above his knees like a crescent moon, and his neck is immovable, he’s the most talented offensive tackle on this roster and should walk away with this spot. Additionally, Davenport really doesn’t have any competition at left tackle. Martinas Rankin and Seantrel Henderson are right tackles.Henderson is going to be really bad Womens Benardrick McKinney Jersey , and Rankin may not be healthy until Week One (or later) after suffering a foot injury. Kendall Lamm doesn’t exist. There isn’t anyone really here to play bloody knuckles with Davenport. I believe the most wide open position battle will be the other defensive end spot. I’m expecting the secondary to be fluid with players playing a variety of different positions since Romeo Crennel doesn’t have a true number one cornerback at his disposal, he looooves to use 5+ defensive backs, and the team has three legitimate safeties. There won’t be a real position by position depth chart battle. This unit should be fairly positionless. The more interesting question on defense will be who will play the opposite side of J.J. Watt. Jadeveon Clowney should move back to outside linebacker, making this position vacant. You got Christian Covington, who’s bounced between inconsistent and injured. You got Carlos Watkins, who produced in college without doing anything spectacular and still managed to play competently last year.You got Brandon Dunn and Joel Heath, who played 40.8% and 31.6% of the team’s defensive snaps last year, and I can’t remember a single one. There’s a lot of options for this spot, and no one stands out. If the team stays healthy, the Texans will have one of the best front sevens in football, and that’s without including any production from the other defensive end spot. If Houston can get anything from the other DE position, this should push their base pass rush over the top and give Whitney Mercilus and Jadeveon Clowney more room to roam Youth Ka'imi Fairbairn Jersey , which is a horrifying thought.
As of right now, my best guess is Christian Covington will win the job. He’s had it before, and he played surprisingly well last year before being lost to injury. However, we’ve seen it before. We’ve expected Covington to provide something, and then he provides nothing. Hopefully this year will be different. In preparation for the Bills and Texans each trying to get back to .500 on Sunday, we here at Battle Red Blog did a “five questions” exchange with Buffalo Rumblings.Thanks to noted members of #BillsMafia Corey and Sean for reaching out.Here are Sean’s answers to my five Bills-Texans questions:1. What did the Bills do against Minnesota that they can’t seem to do against anyone else this season other than eeking out a win over the Titans? (Thanks for that, by the way).2. Josh Allen looks like he’s a ways away from being a truly effective NFL QB. What do Bills fans see as his number one weakness? Number one strength?3. What do the Bills need to do to contain DeAndre Hopkins? Do you anticipate a lot of double-teaming?4. How do you expect the Bills’ front seven to defend against the dual threat Deshaun Watson brings to the game, assuming he plays?5. I am a Texans and previously a Houston Oilers fan. My parents and I actually traveled to Buffalo for the infamous 35-3 playoff comeback game. I remember the cold all too well. And that song. That damned “Let’s Go Buffalo” song. Do Bills fans still reference that game and get a kick out of the memory, or has it faded into oblivion?The sound of Bills fans and the PA system singing/playing that damned song will echo in my brain for an eternity.Thanks again to Sean for his thoughtful responses, and enjoy the game today!