Running the numbers finds the Texans rookies are playing an unbelievable number of snaps.
Nine games into the 2022 NFLseason, the Houston Texans sit at 1-7-1. When a team's record is that poor, there's never any one, single reason. It's typically a combination of things. The Texans, for example, suffer from a severe lack of experienced, high end talent. Their play calling on both sides of the ball is suspect, at best. Above all else, this team is YOUNG.
In 2021, the Texans had one of the oldest teams in the league, largely because the team had been operating without huge draft capital for the last four years due to trades, and what was left of the young players brought in under the Bill O'Brien regime got moved out over time, with a few exceptions. With a full draft class of rookies in 2022, the average age of the squad has flipped.
Each game day, the Texans roll out one of the younger teams in the NFL, and on Sunday against the Giants, it got extreme, with ten rookies seeing the field, several as starters and full time contributors. It's one thing to play as a rookie, but it's another to play well, and that's been hit or miss. RB Dameon Pierce might make the Pro Bowl. First round pick Kenyon Green looked like a high schooler the last three weeks. It's complicated.
Below is an overview of how many snaps each rookie saw on Sunday , with their positional rankings from Pro Football Focus. It's good these rookies are getting some experience, but man, they are taking some lumps:Green had one of the worst games of his young career on Sunday, drawing multiple holding penalties , and allowing the pressure that forced Davis Mills to throw a fourth quarter interception.
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