A Week 2 road trip to Nashville is on tap for the Texans. Titans' head coach Mike Vrabel and a few players shared their thoughts on the Texans, as you can see below.
Titans head coach Mike Vrabel on QB Deshaun Watson: "He's got a strong arm, he's got the ability to keep plays alive. His pocket presence and his strength in the pocket – I think he's got great play strength for a quarterback. A couple of times, even in the game, when the rush is barreling down on him, he's really not even down. I think they're just kind of blowing the whistle because there's three guys on him. One's on his leg, one's on his hip, another one's around his shoulder and he's just kind of standing there. It's very impressive play strength."
LB Rashaan Evans on Watson: "He's a great athlete, but at the same time, if you know how to scheme against him, know that he's lethal with his legs, and if you can respect that I think you have a good chance of beating him."
DT Jurrell Casey on generating an interior rush: "It's going to be key for us up front to make sure we put as much pressure as we can up the middle, because if a quarterback can't step up, it helps a lot for our secondary."
Vrabel on WR Will Fuller, V: "I think you notice that he does have the ability to take the top off of it and get downfield, and Deshaun's willing to wait it out. The protection has been there, or was there, for them to be able to move the ball downfield and throw it and really stretch a defense 40 or 50 yards down the field. He was always willing to block while I was there. I always recognized his ability to block, his willingness to go in there and block. It'll be a difficult challenge, obviously. We're anticipating him being back."
CB Adoree Jackson on Fuller: "They've got a lot of weapons out there, offensively. They got him, they got 12 (Bruce Ellington), 10 (DeAndre Hopkins), the quarterback, running back, they got a lot of people out there that can do a lot of different things. They're offense is stacked and loaded with a lot of people."
RB Dion Lewis on the Texans defense: "They've got a great defense. A lot of talent up front. They generate a good pass rush. They got a new addition with Honey Badger in the secondary so they're really talented. We definitely have our work cut out for us. But at the same time, we're confident in what we can do."
The Houston Texans roster in photos. (Updated 5/7/2021)
TE, Jordan Akins, #88
TE, Antony Auclair
DL, Auzoyah Alufohai, #98
DB, Cornell Armstrong, #30
DL, Ross Blacklock, #90
OL, Justin Britt
DB, Terrence Brooks
TE, Pharaoh Brown, #85
OL, Cohl Cabral, #72
OL, Marcus Cannon
WR, Randall Cobb, #18
DL, Maliek Collins
WR, Nico Collins
WR, Chris Conley
WR, Brandin Cooks, #13
WR, Isaiah Coulter, #82
WR, Keke Coutee, #16
DB, Keion Crossen, #35
LB, Zach Cunningham, #41
LB, Tae Davis
DL, Brandon Dunn, #92
LB, Duke Ejiofor, #53
WR, Alex Erickson
K, Ka'imi Fairbairn, #7
QB, Ryan Finley
OL, Hjalte Froholdt, #77
LB, Jonathan Greenard, #52
LB, Kamu Grugier-Hill
LB, Nate Hall, #48
DB, Vernon Hargreaves III, #26
OL, Charlie Heck, #67
LB, Neville Hewitt
RB, Dontrell Hilliard, #27
OL, Tytus Howard, #71
RB, Buddy Howell, #38
RB, Mark Ingram
TE, Ryan Izzo
LB, Jordan Jenkins
RB, David Johnson, #31
DL, Jaleel Johnson
DB, Lonnie Johnson Jr., #32
P, Cameron Johnston
TE, Brevin Jordan
DB, Desmond King
LB, Christian Kirksey
DL, Shaq Lawson
RB, Phillip Lindsay
DL, Roy Lopez
LB, Jacob Martin, #54
OL, Justin McCray
LB, Whitney Mercilus, #59
QB, Davis Mills
DB, Terrance Mitchell
WR, Donte Moncrief
DB, A.J. Moore Jr., #33
WR, Chris Moore
DB, Eric Murray, #23
LB, Hardy Nickerson
DL, Charles Omenihu, #94
DB, Jonathan Owens, #36
LB, Kevin Pierre-Louis
RB, Scottie Phillips, #40
TE, Paul Quessenberry
DB, John Reid, #34
DB, Justin Reid, #20
DL, Derek Rivers
WR, Andre Roberts
DB, Bradley Roby, #21
OL, Max Scharping, #74
DB, Tremon Smith
OL, Jordan Steckler
OL, Lane Taylor
QB, Tyrod Taylor
DL, Vincent Taylor
LB, Joe Thomas
DB, Tavierre Thomas
OL, Cole Toner
OL, Laremy Tunsil, #78
LB, Garret Wallow
DL, MeMarcus Walker
TE, Kahale Warring, #81
QB, Deshaun Watson, #4
LS, Jon Weeks #46
