{"id":250951,"date":"2026-04-15T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/250951\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:17:07","slug":"the-houston-texans-2026-do-not-draft-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/250951\/","title":{"rendered":"The Houston Texans 2026 Do-Not-Draft List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Last week, I wrote about the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.battleredblog.com\/nfl-draft\/74893\/top-my-guys-for-the-houston-texans-2026-nfl-draft-class#comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> top \u201cmy guys\u201d<\/a> for the Houston Texans in the 2026 NFL Draft. Today, we are flipping the script and focusing on players who I am less excited about than other media outlets or analysts. Specifically, these are players I do not see fitting in Houston schematically, culturally, or technically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">My focus will be on Day Two players; many first-round talent will either be not on the board when Houston selects or are consensus favorites. Many of the players below are in positions of need for the Texans, which has been the emphasis of my pre-draft process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the most part, these are players that I would rather other teams roll the dice on rather than Houston. Let them go after their potential instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, I wrote about the top \u201cmy guys\u201d for the Houston Texans in the 2026 NFL Draft.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,23714,22816,45576],"class_list":{"0":"post-250951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-houston-texans-analysis","12":"tag-houston-texans-draft","13":"tag-nfl-draft-scouting-reports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}