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Kenneth Grant Head Shot
PICK: 19 RND: 1 (HOU)
Kenneth Grant
DT Michigan
Emeka Egbuka Head Shot
PICK: 45 RND: 2 (HOU)
Emeka Egbuka
WR Ohio State
Jalon Walker Head Shot
PICK: 53 RND: 2 (HOU)
Jalon Walker
LB Georgia
Donovan Jackson Head Shot
PICK: 76 RND: 3 (HOU)
Donovan Jackson
OT Ohio State
Colston Loveland Head Shot
PICK: 84 RND: 3 (HOU)
Colston Loveland
TE Michigan
Sonny Styles Head Shot
PICK: 120 RND: 4 (HOU)
Sonny Styles
S Ohio State
Xavier Nwankpa Head Shot
PICK: 164 RND: 5 (HOU)
Xavier Nwankpa
S Iowa
Cam Skattebo Head Shot
PICK: 235 RND: 7 (HOU)
Cam Skattebo
RB Arizona State
Draft Picks Received
Emeka Egbuka Head Shot
PICK: 45 RND: 2 (ARI)
Emeka Egbuka
WR Ohio State
Donovan Jackson Head Shot
PICK: 76 RND: 3 (ARI)
Donovan Jackson
OT Ohio State
Draft Grade — Texans
Overall B+
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The Texans won the night they stopped Skattebo from sliding. Grade: B+.

Thirty-one other rooms let Cam Skattebo slide, and the Texans were the ones holding the card at the 235th overall pick. Highway robbery. They moved the roster forward and banked a B+ for it.

They robbed the room blind at the table, and it lifts the grade on its own. They are betting Nwankpa proves the room right and everyone else wrong. That edge rusher hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.

The roster is better shaped than it was, with running back chief among the fixes.

Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.

Pick Analysis
Pick19 Rnd1 Kenneth Grant
In slot 19 they get a load in the middle at fair value. The biggest hole, addressed.
Pick45 Rnd2 Emeka Egbuka
Emeka Egbuka at the 45th overall pick is money in the bank, a wide receiver taken below his worth. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick53 Rnd2 Jalon Walker
They robbed the room for Jalon Walker here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Pick76 Rnd3 Donovan Jackson
A reach on Donovan Jackson in Round 3, Pick 12; the board had better options right there. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Pick84 Rnd3 Colston Loveland
Steal is underselling it; Colston Loveland at pick No. 84 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Pick120 Rnd4 Sonny Styles
Sonny Styles at No. 120 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Pick164 Rnd5 Xavier Nwankpa
A wild overpay on Xavier Nwankpa in pick 164, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
Pick235 Rnd7 Cam Skattebo
The board fumbled Cam Skattebo all the way to the 235th pick, and they scooped it up. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.