Houston Texans 2025 Draft: Grades For Each Pick

Like a flash, the 2025 NFL Draft has come and gone. Chock full of trades, charades, and busted parlays, this draft will go down as being one of the weirdest in recent history. Only two quarterbacks, Cam Ward and Jaxson Dart, were taken in the first round. Offensive and defensive linemen, the hog mollies, came off the board early, with five taken in the top ten picks and eleven taken in the top twenty. Late-round sleepers going went high, blue-chip players fell into the third round; you name it, it probably happened during the draft. In similar fashion, the Houston Texans also had an extremely odd, unpredictable NFL Draft, packed with six trades and nine selections; each one zanier than the last. No draft manned by general manager Nick Caserio will ever be boring, thats for sure! Now that all of us in the peanut gallery are left to sift through the rubble, I think its time to throw out some grades. Heres my first impression, knee-jerk grades to all nine selections:Round 2, Pick 34 Overall: WR Jayden Higgins, Iowa State Photo by Luke Lu/Diamond Images via Getty Images Height: 6 4Weight: 214 : 33 1/8Hand: 9 1/8Combine; 40-Yard Dash: 4.47s; 10-Yard Split: 1.53s; Vertical Jump: 39; Broad Jump: 10 82024 Statistics: 13 Games, 87 Receptions on 129 Targets , 1, 183 Yards , 9 Receiving Touchdowns, 90.3 PFFIowa States most targeted receiver in 2024, Jayden Higgins was a big-body threat that had the speed to threaten at all levels of the opposing defense. Hes got an uncanny ability to track the ball and get his hands on it Ka’dar Hollman Jersey, even with cornerbacks draped all over him. Although, with as much speed as he has, he isnt very creative with it and doesnt gain much separation. But, with raw ability and production like this, you cant blame Nick Caserio for taking a chance of know, as I keep watching him, I start to understand why current Houston Texans wide receiver Nico Collins was such a parroted comparison. Just like Collins when he was coming out of Michigan in 2021, Higgins is an attractive professional prospect because of his height, speed, and ball skills. Just like Collins, he ran a bit on an incomplete route tree and didnt use his speed as much as you would have liked to have seen.